Up for consideration is a rare promo edition of Pearl Jam's 1993 vinyl record.  The packaging is rough--but it has never been taken out of the package.  There are some pieces of the packaging that are missing.  There is also like a 4 inch open area where you would slide the record out, but is has never been removed.  This is an extremely rare exquisite estate sale find.   I do not accept returns unless something has been misrepresented in error.  I try my best to describe accurately.  I only accept paypal and payment is due within 3 days.  Bid with confidence.  I have 100% positive feedback and I have been a member of eBay since January of 2001.  I strive to make this an A+ transaction, so please let me know of any problems.  I am a very reasonable person.  Thanks for looking and have a good day.  You are getting a steal on this vinyl album.  There is a hole punch in the upper left hand corner, but it certainly does not de-value the price at all.  It just means that it is a promo copy.

Pearl Jam Vs LP Epic (Z 53136) ORIGINAL 1993 PROMO FIRST VINYL rare original 1993 promo first pressing of "VS".  Released prior to the CD version, spine says only "Pearl Jam" Z 53136.  "Vs." is not printed anywhere on the cover as the album title was still not settled.

Pearl Jam Vs.180 gram Audiophile Vinyl, NEW

SEALED

Vs. is the second studio album by the American alternative rock band Pearl Jam, released on October 19, 1993 through Epic Records. After a relentless touring schedule in support of its debut album, Ten (1991), Pearl Jam headed into the studio in early 1993 facing the challenge of following up the commercial success of its debut. The resulting album, Vs., featured a rawer and more aggressive sound compared with the band's previous release. It was the band's first collaboration with producer Brendan O'Brien.

Pearl Jam decided to scale back its commercial efforts for Vs., including declining to produce music videos for any of the album’s singles. Upon its release, Vs. set the record for most copies of an album sold in its first week, a record it held for five years. Vs. occupied the number one spot on the Billboard 200 for five weeks, the longest duration for a Pearl Jam album. The album has been certified seven times platinum by the RIAA in the United States

Detailed item info

Track Listing
1. Go
2. Animal
3. Daughter
4. Glorified G
5. Dissident
6. W.M.A.
7. Blood
8. Rearviewmirror
9. Rats
10. Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town
11. Leash
12. Indifference

Details

Playing Time:

46 min.

Producer:

Brendan O'Brien, Pearl Jam

Distributor:

Sony Music Distribution (

Recording Type:

Studio

Recording Mode:

Stereo

SPAR Code:

n/a

Album Notes
Pearl Jam: Eddie Vedder (vocals); Stone Gossard, Mike McCready (guitar); Jeff Ament (bass); Dave Abbruzzese (drums).
Recorded at The Site, Nicasio, California and Potatohead Studio, Seattle, Washington.
VS. was nominated for a 1995 Grammy Award for Best Rock Album. "Daughter" was nominated for Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals, and "Go" was nominated for Best Hard Rock Performance.
Although it topped the pop charts and sold 5 million copies, Pearl Jam's stunning second album is unknown to much of the rock audience. Recoiling from the octopus-like grasp of the music industry, the group refused to support VS. with either videos, singles or a major tour, and rock radio was given just two acoustic-powered ballads, "Daughter" and "Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town," as so-called emphasis tracks.
The former was about a sexually abused young girl promising to rise above her past, the latter about a forgotten woman with nothing but long gone memories. The rest of the album rocked significantly harder--harder and more raw, in fact, than anything on TEN--and zoomed in on a cusp between those two stories, on moments when outlaws, outcasts, the dispossessed and the disaffected were being called to political judgment. The woman sheltering a "Dissident" gives in and turns him over to the police. But the abused subjects of "Go" and "Rearviewmirror"--two of the album's most musically heroic songs--manage to turn the tables and get away.
There was a suffocating bleakness to much of VS. (in "Rats," humans are compared most unfavorably to those animals) that would have dragged down a lesser rock band. But singer Eddie Vedder had the support of one of the most transcendent of all classic-rock bands, with a supple rhythm section and two creatively complicated guitarists equally at home with the thrashy pulse of "Go," the delicate prettiness of "Elderly Woman..." (check out the layered, stereo guitar work there) and the new wave angularity of a song like "Glorified G." It was serious, but also serious rock and roll.