Sold Date: March 4, 2022
Start Date: March 3, 2022
Final Price: £30.00 (GBP)
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General background -

This is one from my personal collection. I started buying records back in the '60s, probably bought most of my stuff in the late '60s and '70s. I carried on buying vinyl through into the '90s, but by that point it was more out of habit than desire - I always though of myself as "a vinyl guy" and although I was buying CDs by then, I grabbed any vinyl albums by artists I liked or was interested in. In a lot of these later cases they mostly never even got played. By that point I wasn't actually using my record deck/hi-fi much - if I bothered to play anything it tended to be via the PC and its own attached mini-system. When I last moved house around 2001 my hi-fi system got ignored and has only very recently come back in to use.
But when I did buy albums, I always took great care of them. I have plenty of albums that I bought over 50 years ago that could pass for new - unmarked and perfectly clean players. I've always handled, played, and stored my records carefully. Typically they've been stored properly in thick protective sleeves in purpose built cabinets, and I've always used good quality systems to play them on - in the past things like Pioneer or AR decks, and since the '80s a Roksan Xerxes/RB/OC9 combination.
After dragging my vinyl around for some 50-60 years, I've decided to finally retire most of it. I shall keep some old favourites, but other than that it will go. I've always felt that listening to vinyl should be a dedicated thing, and there are few occasions now when I feel like just sitting and giving a record the attention it deserves. Having a bit of digital music burbling away in the background while I'm doing something else is more the norm for me now.
I've tried to price things reasonably, allowing for the fact that most of them are in very good condition, and I'm listing a lot of them now as "fixed price" listings, rather than auctions, but all of them are open to offers.

This record -
Another well maintained 50 year old. A first pressing variant as far as I can tell (K 54005 A4, K 54005 B2)

Vinyl looks brand new. There are a couple of marks on Side one Track one but they are almost inaudible. I played this before listing and I can just about make out two small 'pops' around the area of these marks, but I had to listen very carefully. This is one of those lovely solid old vinyl records - the sound is absolutely gorgeous and there is total dark silence as background. Vinyl really was in its heyday back around then.

Original plain inner sleeve cleaan and undamaged.
Gatefold lyric sheet present and as new.
Gatefold record sleeve has been in a vinyl protector forever and so is pretty much perfect.
A very nice original copy.