Echo and the Bunnymen - Flowers, vinyl LP album, 2001, COOK 208
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From my own collection that I'm down-sizing . . .
A rare vinyl version of EATB 2001 album Flowers on Cooking Vinyl COOK 208
I got this on release and it's been with me ever since. It will have had the occasional play but had been stored and treated very carefully.
The sleeve is excellent with no creases and just the usual bit of slight edge wear of which the most noticeable would be the front bottom left corner.
The inner sleeve is very good with just an inch long slit on the middle of one side that was there when it arrived but is only visible from the side.
The heavyweight vinyl has no scratches etc. just a little bit of light surface rubbing. From recollection the vinyl in the early nineties wasn't great, and I will have got this mail order, so I think the rubbing was there when it arrived and I never bothered sending it back. I've just checked between tracks on each side and Side 2 seems fine but Side 1 has a bit of background crackling as the first track gets going. You can hear it again in the gap before the second track but then things improve after that until right at the end of the final track on the side which is cut very close to the centre of the disc and for the last three seconds of the fadeout you can hear background noise again.
So basically the vinyl is not perfect, but my guess would be that this is the case with many if not all of the pressings whenb you actually play them.
There are no blemishes to the labels and the edges are all stuck firmly so the slight white around the edge you can see in the picture is presumably from the die-cutting of the labels.
Overall everything looks really good, but it's not a brilliant pressing. However you need to take into account that I'm being really careful and critical with my descriptions as it certainly looks well looked after. And I imagine there aren't many around either.
I'll package up carefully and send with free P+P in the UK.
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