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When a band is truly great, and also gets hit singles on the charts, but at the same time doesn't get any respect from the writers and reviewers, then you have bands like Badfinger (in the UK) or Raspberries (in the US). What they had in common is that even folks who loved their singles on the radio called them Beatles imitators, because both bands loved poppy guitar sounds and great close harmonies and energy. Some folks don't like having guilty pleasures. Later on there would be a beautiful self-conscious attempt to make a virtue of all this, called Power Pop, and it failed in the same way for the same reason I guess. dB's R.I.P. 

Anyway, if you read up on Badfinger you'll hear a story that deserves a whole book; maybe somebody has written one. The contents are great talent, world fame of the ambiguous kind noted above, record company chaos, lawsuits, white-collar theft, emotional crises, and two suicides. As a story it works at cross-purposes to the sound of the band, which is beautiful and joyful...that's life I guess.

This is their first album, and starts off with their biggest hit, the Paul McCartney-written "Come and Get It."

This is the first UK edition and has the thinner glossier UK sleeve, intensifying the colors of the surreal proto-Hypgnosis cover art.

The sleeve condition is as you see it here, a bit of ringwear, a small price sticker, small abrasions at the extremities, but overall still great. 

The vinyl itself is pristine with the only exception I've noticed being the lead-in grooves to Side 2 Cut 1 "Carry On Till Tomorrow," which has a bit of noise. That loses it a step and makes for NM-. But you'll like it.