Beastie Boys "Country Mike" -ORIGINAL, Color Labels, NOT A BOOT

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Beastie Boys

“Country Mike’s Greatest Hits”

Grand Royal CM-001

LP Released in 2000

Original Black Vinyl Edition

 This is the real McCoy: a black vinyl version, from Christmas 2000.  They only pressed 200 of these on black vinyl and 300 on red, which makes these black copies surprisingly more rare.  It is my understanding that the red copies went to friends & family, while the black copies went to business associates – needless to say, fewer black copies have made their way out to the public. 

 This is not a bullshit bootleg, and here is how you can tell:

-The original has a 1/4 inch white border around all four sides of the front picture sleeve, while the bootleg has no border. The bootleg's front image extends to the edge causing the picture and text to be slightly larger than the original.

-The bootleg image has a slight yellow tint to it when compared to the original.

-The spine of the original reads "Country Mike's Greatest Hits The Round-Up Factor/ Grand Royal" and this is not present on the bootleg. The back cover of the original also has a scripted font saying "The Round-Up Factor" written across the bottom, which again has been removed on the bootleg.

-A Grand Royal logo present on the back sleeve has also been taken off.

-The vinyl-labels are vastly different with the original having full color images and text where as the bootlegs simply have black text printed on plain white labels.

-The catalogue number for the bootleg is "CN 005". For the original it is "CM-001".

-The etchings in the runout groove of the original Side-A are: "CM-001-A-4", "READIN' YOU THE NEWS" and "L-52482". Side B has "CM-001-B" and "L-52482X". The bootleg simply has "CN 005 A" and "CN 005 B1".

This copy has all of the right features:

             -White borders on the cover photo, with bright & crisp colors

            -The proper print on the spine, “The Round-Up Factor” on the back

            -The Grand Royal Logo and copywright

            -Full color image labels, catalog number CM-001 & run-out etchings are correct

 This copy is stamped in the runout area on side-A with the word “Masterdisk”.

 Tracks:

A1

Sloppy Drunks

A2

Railroad Blues

A3

We Can Do This

A4

Country Delight

Scratches – Mix Master Mike

A5

Don't Let The Air Out My Tires

A6

How Do You Mend An Achin' Heart

B1

One Song A Night

B2

Country Christmas

Mandolin – William Meyer

Violin – Bucky Baxter

Whistling – Bill McMullen

B3

Kenny Jones (Country Knows Best)

B4

Country Mike's Theme

B5

On Your Way Up Again (The Fowl Song)

B6

We Can Do This (Live)

B7

The Half-Wit

 This copy is in perfect MINT condition! The cover is in MINT condition. I bought it sealed and unused 10 years ago and have only opened it to check the color and look at the art – this has never been played or even handled. It has simply sat on a shelf in my collection for 10 years.  It deserves a good spot on the shelf in another collection, to be admired and saved… it’s value will only increase.

 For info on this release, or the differences between the official and bootleg versions, check out these two pages:

            All Country Mike Releases

            Differences Between Pressings (with photos)

 Please check out my pictures so you can bid with confidence that this is the real artifact I claim it to be.  Please email me with any questions.

 On a side note, I am currently selling all of my rare and hard to find Beastie Boys 12” singles, EPs and records, so be sure to check my other auctions to gather up some other special pressings, and save on shipping at the same time.

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I've had some requests for more photos of the distinguishing characteristics of this record, so I added 4 pics.  You can see on the back the phrase "The Round-Up Factor" and the Grand Royal 'branding-iron' style copyright logo.  Also added a pic of the spine, although it was very hard to get a good shot - the print is very small.  I hope this can put your worries to rest that you are bidding on an original, and please continue to ask any questions you might have.