Pretty Things - S.F. Sorrow and Parachute (Vinyl, 1975, NM)
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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 -
When I was going through my albums to decide what to keep, I remembered my old original copy of SF Sorrow, and went looking for it. T'ain't there so I guess I must have given it away in my burst of anti-materialism back in '69. That's a shame, but I guess it saves me a difficult choice - I loved the original sleeve and it has good memories for me (I saw them doing this at an all-night open air gig also back in '69), but it is worth a bundle now - so, that's one more first-world problem avoided.
I did find this though. And I have no memory of it, in fact I'd have sworn that I've never heard Parachute before playing it through for this listing.
So the vinyl is pretty much unplayed, bright shiny black and unmarked. I've only not marked it "Mint" because I'm getting embarassed by the number of Mint albums I'm discovering.
Original paper inners browning slightly with age.
Gatefold sleeve is clean and unmarked, would be at least NM but you can just begin to see the impression of the record outines appearing at through the outers.
A very nice copy of a couple of fine old 1960s gems.
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