Error Record BILLY JOEL COLD SPRING HARBOR Vinyl 1971 LP First Edition FPS 2700

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 I was sent this today and i feel it passed all 4

There are various ways of differentiating counterfeits, but the following are a few of the better ones I've found:

1) The genuine album has no left or lower borders on the picture on the back.
The back cover is created by a square picture pasted over the cardboard.
There are no white borders on this picture. On the bottom
edge of the back, the picture from the front of the cover wraps 
around to the back, and the back cover picture is pasted over the 
wrap-around area. Most counterfeits have some white border at the left
and/or lower borders. Both genuine albums and counterfeits
have borders at the other edges (usually).

2) The picture on the counterfeit is less detailed than the original (since
it's a picture of the original!) It's hard to explain most of the
differences without reference to the real thing, but look for things 
like: the labels on the three bottles in the background on the back 
cover should be blurry but the writing/graphics on the labels 
should be visible. On the counterfeits, these labels are usually 
nearly black (particularly the bottle on the right). The upper 
outline of Joel's left hand should be distinguishable. On the 
counterfeits, usually this portion of the picture is nearly all black.

3) The original label (non white label promo) is a bluish-green. The color of
the label gets a bit darker as you proceed from the outside in. It should
NOT be a flat color for the entirety of the label. On the original,
there should be white stars on the label in the region where
the outline of an animal appears. Many counterfeits do not
have the stars.

4) The run-off groove: On the originals that I've seen, there's a small
triangle that's sort-of scratched out. I've not seen this on the
counterfeits.

Billy Joel ?– Cold Spring Harbor

Through an error in the album's mastering, the songs played slightly too fast, causing Joel's voice to sound unnaturally high (one-half of a semitone higher—Joel joked that he sounded more like one of The Chipmunks than himself). According to a long-standing rumor, when Joel first heard the finished product, he "ripped it off the turntable, ran out of the house, and threw [the record] down the street."[1] Arthur "Artie" Ripp, owner of Family Productions and hence the owner of the original master tapes, was responsible for the production error, and the mistake cost him his friendship with Joel. He had originally signed the then-unknown 22-year-old Joel to a 10-record contract that stripped Joel of all rights to the original tapes and to the publishing rights to all current and future songs.[3]

As part of a deal with Columbia Records to release Joel from his contract, Ripp was still able to collect royalties on sales of Joel's records long after Joel's acrimonious departure from Family Productions (up until 1986's The Bridge). Ripp only sold the publishing rights to Joel's song catalog back to Joel reluctantly after intense pressure from CBS/Columbia Records president Walter Yetnikoff, who claimed he had to threaten Ripp to finalize the deal.