Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti (Vinyl, First UK Pressing, 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 -
This is the first UK pressing of this album - matrix codes SSK-89400-A1, -B4, -C1 and -D1, Cover and inner sleeves smooth outside but rough inside, and the insert is satin finish both sides and with a single fold and correct text on the album cover ("Kings Road" address), inner sleeves (SSK 89400/A and /B pn lower right hand corners) and the "Gothic Print Finishers" attribution on the insert.
The vinyl is in excellent condition. Like so many of my albums, this never got much play, probably not more than once all the way through - if you've seen a few of my listings and wonder if I ever played anything, I certainly did but all the stuff I really played is the stuff I really liked and I'm keeping that.
So this is all clean and unmarked and plays without any background noise. I have just gone back and played all the run ins, and dropped the stylus down in-between a couple of the tracks, and it really is just inky black silence.
The inner sleeves are the thick card versions of the first release and are themselves completely fresh, as is the insert.
As these card inserts are rough faced on the inside (where the vinyl lives - doh!) the records themselves were put into Goldring anti-static sleeves immediately.
The slipcase style sleeve with the cut-out windows is also in splendid condition.
A rare copy in even rarer condition.
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