Audience - Audience - original 1969 UK pressing Prog Rock vinyl album

	£		119
	$		158

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I have been a music lover and vinyl enthusiast since the early 1970s and over the past years have become an established and trusted eBay seller of a large and very wide range of vinyl records. The vast majority are authentic, original pressings featuring quality music from the 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's, but occasionally more recent releases if they are of particular interest.
I have been away from selling for almost a year though during this time I have been very fortunate in buying several full record collections including some very rare albums in quite beautiful condition, including many superb Japanese pressings, the quality of which has to be seen and heard to be believed.
I am a GENUINE, INDIVIDUAL PRIVATE SELLER not a professional trader, although you can be 100% assured that I will strive hard to apply thoroughly professional standards to every aspect of our eBay dealings. In the unlikely event that we ever did run into any problems then please do not hesitate to contact me and you have my unequivocal guarantee that the matter will be resolved without delay. I am honoured to have a loyal and highly valued band of returning buyers and customer satisfaction is my first priority.
All the records which I sell have been very well cared for, though I will give an honest appraisal of their condition and will put up plenty of photos of the actual records for sale so you can see exactly what you are bidding on. I endeavour to highlight anything in the description which I myself would want to be made aware of before deciding to place a bid. I am very aware that, as a distance buyer, you are entrusting in the honesty of the item descriptions and I always aim to describe the records truthfully. Should you need further details on a particular record then I will happily provide extra photographs and detail. 
Every single record, barring new releases, be it a £5 or £500 album, goes through the same 4-stage deep cleaning process using either professionally constructed ultrasonic or wet vacuum systems, often both, with only record cleaning fluids of the finest quality and purity using techniques, materials and formulae tailored and developed from cleaning 1000s upon 1000s of albums over many years, so the vinyl is all immaculately clean and dust free and ready to play to its maximum potential. Every record is then inspected under the ultra-bright and highly revealing light of an LED inspection lamp and then the relevant visual results of this are noted in the descriptions.  
A note regarding the most important matter of all - the audio - as with all vinyl, even straight out of the cellophane, there can be light crackle or very light 'ticks/pops' during the quiet passages. I have listened carefully to all these records so I will include in the descriptions any aspects of the audio playback which needs to be highlighted and although highly subjective, the only measure by which I make an informed decision is that ultimately if I wouldn't be absolutely 100% happy to immediately slide the record in alongside my own personal treasured collection, then quite simply it will not be listed for sale on here.
All records will be supplied to you in a high quality clear outer wallet to protect the sleeve and a top quality poly-lined inner for the vinyl.
****  SPECIFIC DETAILS ABOUT THIS RECORD FOR SALE - PLEASE READ ****
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'Audience' - original UK 1969 vinyl album in excellent condition. The matrix reads 583065 A//1 ?420 1 1 3 / 583065 B//1 ?420 1 1 2.
The vinyl retains its original glossy sheen with only very light superficial hairlines and the odd light blemish visible in bright light and I played this album from start to finish last night and again this afternoon and playback is excellent. No overpowering crackle or nasty ticks, just very nice clean and crisp playback.
****PLEASE NOTE**** This very strange sleeve (made from the kind of paper I would associate more with that found used for the pages of a budget scrapbook) is a pretty tricky one to grade in as far as at first glance it looks pretty spot on. The back story is that I've had this album for 30+ years and I got it second hand in very good condition (after swapping it for 'The Feeding of The 5000' by Crass when a friend and I were attempting to broaden our respective musical horizons!) and its condition has not changed as it never did become a great favourite of mine so it's not seen much play at all whilst in my possession. Only when I removed it from its protective outer sleeve today to take the photos did I notice that the spine has split through in parts (I did my best to illustrate this is photo #4 without straining it) and that a previous owner has gone over what must have been shelf wear on this very thin sleeve with black ink of some kind. All I can say is that I've never noticed this before and I'd still say that this is a very good looking sleeve but it's only right to point out that on close inspection some restoration has been carried out. I now have the album stored in a plain card sleeve to preserve the delicate original. Don't get me wrong, this sleeve is not about to fall to pieces by any means, it's just never been a particularly suitable object in which to store a record from day one! 
The vinyl is now housed in a brand new high quality poly-lined inner sleeve for safekeeping though the original plain poly-lined inner is included for completeness.
Please take a little time to take a look at the photos which were taken today and are of the actual record which is for sale here and, although I'm no photographer are my best attempt to give an accurate reflection of this vintage album's excellent all round condition.
All in all this is a very good looking and sounding copy of this hard-to-find 1960's Prog album. 
I've really no idea on value so I'll let it go to auction and as I always say - I ALWAYS allow my auctions to run so there is no buy-it-now option. 
Please feel free to ask for more details or photos.
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I have a lot of shipping experience and your records will be sent to you thoroughly packaged in high quality bespoke record mailers with rigid card stiffeners. 
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I will be listing lots of other very varied high quality records over the coming days and weeks including some quite superb rarities and collectables and I have other listings currently running so please check out my other items for sale and thank you for looking.