The Cure - Wish (Vinyl, Double LP, UK first pressing, Mint)
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225
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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 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. Apart from anything else, tastes change and I don't feel inclined to give the dedicated listening time that I feel vinyl deserves to a lot of the stuff I have now
This record -
This is another of those ones that has almost certainly never been played all the way through. Looking at the track listing, I may have played the big single (Friday I'm In Love) on side 4 but that was most likely it before filing it away with all the others albums. All four sides are clean and bright and unmarked, with the exception of a weird visual mark on track one, side three/C. I've tried to get a picture of this for this listing (last shot). The only way I can describe it is that it looks like the gloss has been lost on a spot of the surface. It can only be a pressing mark of some sort - it doesn't clean off with an anti-static cloth or brush. I played that track through to check it out and there is absolutely no audible effect generated by the mark, so I'm still marking this as Mint as it seems to be a purely visual imperfection in the pressing. No other issues anywhere. Matrix numbers are etched: 513 261-1-A1 (-B1/-C1/-D1) followed by an etched logo.
The original stiff laminated card inner sleeves are present and as new, but the records stored are in Goldring anti-static sleeves.
The record cover/sleeve is slightly bumped at the top outer corner but is otherwise clean and bright. HMV price sticker, should be removable if required.
A very nice copy.
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