Big Star Third vinyl LP test pressing reissue box set (Alex Chilton)

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For your consideration I offer one of the 2000 limited edition "test pressing" reissues of Big Star's legendary "Third" LP. As you probably know, this LP box set was released for Record Store Day 2011, and is highly sought-after.

I was lucky enough to purchase this on Record Store Day. I promptly cleaned the LP on my Nitty Gritty record cleaning machine, placed the LP in an archival rice paper/poly sleeve, and then left it on the shelf for a special occasion. Just to clarify, this LP has never been played -- so it's as close to NM that an unsealed package could be.

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Please feel free to contact me with any questions. Thanks for looking!


**I'll include the information from the Omnivore Recordings site below http://www.omnivorerecordings.com/artists/big-star/, and there's a wealth of coverage of the release of this box set on the internet as well:

What the heck is Big Star Third, anyway? To be honest, it’s the kind of thing a doctoral thesis could be written about: a “lost” record re-discovered years after it was recorded, one that has seen many track listings, titles and album covers, a classic, an enigma.

Third comes from sessions with Big Star’s Alex Chilton, Jody Stephens and a bevy of session musicians, recorded with producer Jim Dickinson in 1974 and early 1975. Whether it was actually intended to be a Big Star album is up for debate, but a couple hundred test pressings made in 1975 clearly list it as Big Star III, as does the original tape box (now lovingly reproduced here for you). Until the cavalcade of reissues began in 1978, all that existed were those test pressings. And since that time, it has been reissued and resequenced into something other than what the original product was: a 14-track pressing of pure bliss.

We here at Omnivore have decided to transport you back 36 years, to a time and place where this platter of polyvinyl chloride was all that existed–a truly faithful replica of that Ark of power pop goodness (complete with replicas of the original tape box, tracking and lead sheets, mastering card and pretty white blank label). This limited edition is being cut from the original assembly reel, on the same lathe at the legendary Ardent Studios in Memphis and by the very same engineers who cut it the first time, Mr. Larry Nix and Mr. John Fry! Pressed on high quality vinyl at RTI, this should be the definitive version of this album.

To make things even more special, in the worldwide, limited run of 2,000 copies, five copies of the original test pressings (courtesy of Jody Stephens) will be inserted into the mix. Which means not only that you can listen to a bit of history—but if you’re lucky you could own it, too. To make things even cooler, those five copies have been signed by Jody, original mastering engineers Larry Nix and Ardent’s John Fry.

Third time’s the charm, indeed.