Slayer - Reign In Blood vinyl lp. LONLP 34 1986 in VGC. First Pressing

	£		23
	$		30

Slayer - Reign In Blood vinyl lp. Third album. Original release.

First Pressing. London Records LONLP 34 (Licenced from Def Jam/ Geffen 1986).

Kept in a PVC cover and owned from new.

Condition with reference to 'Record Collector' magazines' grading system*:

- The album cover is in 'excellent' condition. Picture surfaces are clean and unmarked. No rips, bends, significant creases or tears. Very light and few edge creases only. Pretty carefully handled, stored upright and kept in a pvc cover (included).

- The inner sleeve is actually the provenance of the first pressing as the lyrics, logos, etc are printed in red ink as opposed to the later editions which were black. I'm not a dealer or a collector in particular, just a huge fan who saw them play a few times way back with Nuclear Assault and Megadeth, etc and bought this pretty much the minute it came out. In 'excellent' condition with no tears.

- The vinyl is in 'very good' to condition. There is some light surface marking and a little crackling between tracks and in quieter sections as it was played a fair bit but there are no repetitive clicks or jumps and no deep scratches.

(* 'Mint': The record itself is in brand new condition with no surface marks or deterioration in sound quality. The cover and any extra items such as the lyric sheet, booklet or poster are in perfect condition.

'Excellent': The record shows some signs of having been played, but there is very little lessening of sound quality. The cover and packaging might have slight wear and / or creasing.

'Very Good': The record has obviously been played many times, but displays no major deterioration in sound quality, despite noticeable surface marks and the occasional light scratch. Normal wear and tear on the cover or extra items, without any major defects, is acceptable.

'Good': The record has been played so much that the sound quality has noticeably detereorated, perhaps with some distortion or mild scratches. The cover and contents suffer from folding, scuffing of the edges, spine splits, discolouration, etc.

'Fair': The record is still just playable but has not been cared for properly and displays considerable surface noise: it may even jump. The cover and contents will be badly damaged or partly missing.

'Poor': The record will not play properly due to scratches, bad surface noise etc.. The cover and contents will be badly damaged or partly missing.

'Bad': The record is unplayable or might even be broken and is only of use as a collection filler.)

Postage And Packing, etc.

- Royal Mail First Class within the UK mainland. Airmail to most of Europe too with a few exceptions.

- PayPal auction only.

- Please only bid if you honestly intend to buy for that price and can settle up shortly after the end of the auction.

- It will be safely packaged in a DEFENDA MusicMax locktab cardboard mailer ( www.defendapack.co.uk/musicmax_large_images.htm ) and dispatched very shortly after receiving payment.

- I aim to post within three working days of receiving payment but I usually manage after just one or two.

(This is a second account I'm starting up. I'm actually a fairly experienced seller with a score of 397 and 100% on another account that I plan on closing down soon thanks to eBay inflexibility).

Stay tuned for more listings soon.

Thanks for checking.

(This is just a little rant of mine about whether to buy an original release or a 'luxury 180 gram vinyl' re-issue:

Does anyone else think it's funny how, for something like 80 or 100 years, records like this got more refined as technology and materials got more sophisticated until, when the era of vinyl record production had reached it's modern peak, records were robust, durable, thin, chemically advanced and lightweight vinyl items but now it is supposed to be more 'luxurious' to buy these so called 'luxury 180g vinyl' versions? Could it be a 'P.R.' ploy to manipulate the consumer's perception, creating the impression that they will be buying into something rustic and old fashioned, like from when things were supposedly generally more substantial, tactile and heavy, etc., as if vinyl was always 'supposed' to be heavy? When really, 180g vinyl is just over-engineered and unnecessarily cumbersome: an inaccurate replica and a vulgar caricature.

The days of peak vinyl production and use weren't actually all that long ago. Around about the same time that the Concorde passenger jet was in service. Anyone see the point I'm alluding to there? It wasn't a 'Flintstones' type of time like the purveyors of this new 'Flintstones' type of vinyl are trying to suggest. The engineering of materials and production techniques had become pretty well refined by that time!

Good quality vinyl doesn't have to be so heavy. There is no need for it to be and I would even argue that it shouldn't be (for whatever that's worth, ha). It was engineered and refined by the mid 1980's to the point where it no longer had to be and there are no real advantages in it being so heavy. Not for the end user's purposes anyway. So this 'luxury 180 gram vinyl' patter must be for the supplier's purposes then. The subtle, psychological, 'P.R.' type purposes I've suggested, probably. So they can tack on the word 'luxury' as being the reason for it. 'They are totally at it' I believe. It would certainly explain what all the 'luxury' Flintstones vinyl is all about.

I think it's a total con so that businesses can capitalise on your interest in vintage or classic records and undermine the 2nd hand market (2nd hand record stores, small businesses, myself and the sale of items such as this) in favour of selling their own new products.

I don't know this for a fact right, but I wouldn't be surprised if, when cd's came in and the vinyl demand and production became all but obsolete, big companies either binned or scrapped all the state of the art production equipment from their 'mothballed' pressing plants and all that's left now for todays manufacturers to produce your 180g discs on is the vintage hardware, that they used to press the big fat old 78's on, that had been kept as antiques. That or it's far more cost effective and easy to produce on shitty materials that have to be thick so that they don't break too easily and now that someone's seen a demand and a market for vinyl arise again, they go '"look at this demand, how can we make these people buy brand new re-issues from us instead of the original ones, when all we're able to produce are these stupid big fat crappy old-fashioned heavy versions?", "I know, we'll tell them it's because they are 'luxury'!"'

Of course, with re-issues or new releases, they can manufacture formats on whichever materials of whichever weights they like and you can decide on whichever version you want to buy. That's fine, obviously. It's commerce (which usually involves advertising and 'Public Relations', sometimes lying and spin).

With reissues though: I would say that the choice of whether to buy the genuine article or an over-engineered, inaccurate and implausible 'P.R.-ed up' reproduction, 'authorised' or not: a replica, should be fairly clear.)