Sold Date: March 27, 2022
Start Date: March 20, 2022
Final Price: £13.50 (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.

This record -
Released just before Lennon's "Imagine" (the two albums have sequential Apple Records catalogue numbers).
This copy is, I believe, a first pressing (YEX 837-1 and YEX 838-1) and the vinyl is generally very clean and dark. There is a hairline mark across Side 1 Track 1, and a weird looking pair of marks toward the end of Side 2 Track 2, but none of these marks are audible and the record plays with minimal, almost zero, background noise.

Plain original inner sleeve clean, undamaged.
Laminated gatefold sleeve very clean and bright. Another one that has spent its life in a heavy duty vinyl protector, just very slight wear to the open edges.
A nice original copy.