Oasis - Definitely Maybe (Vinyl, Double LP, First UK Pressing, Near Mint)
£
180
$
239
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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 (I also find kneeling down and trying to read album spines too much like hard work these days <grin>)
This record -
This is one of those that has probably never been played all the way through - probably just sampled a couple of tracks. The records are bright and unmarked. The runouts are CRELP 169 A1/B1/C1/D1 and this is the version with the "damont" etching in the runout. The records are stored in Goldring anti-static sleeves.
The gatefold sleeve is clean and bright, with just the tiniest of bumps to the fore-corners of the front half - a couple of mm at the top and barely noticable at the bottom. Still got the record store price lables and could pass for new.
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