The Boo Radleys - Wake Up (Vinyl, 1995, Near Mint)
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Description
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 -
Played a couple of times only. There is a hairline mark across the last 2cm of Side 1 (last track and half previous track) but this seems to be a pressed in mark rather than a mark that affects the groove (and therefore the music). I played the album to check it for listing and there is no surface noise anywhere, incuding where this mark is. I also digitised the album and there are no visual indications in the waveform for this mark either. I've found a few marks like this in various albums and I guess this is just a feature of some pressings. Apart from this mark, everything is clean, bright and unmarked.
Paper inner sleeve crisp and clean
Gatefold sleeve unmarked, and also unopened as it's still shrink-wrapped, the wrap having just been slit open to access the record.
A very nice copy.
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