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  • pumpkinman wrote: »
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    Pink Floyd • The Wall
    Another of my $1 junk shop finds

    Can't beat that price. One of my absolute favorites. Not sure where it falls on the CD, but side 3 on vinyl version is a fantastic demonstrator when friends are over that like Pink Floyd
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  • pumpkinman
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    DividedSky wrote: »
    pumpkinman wrote: »
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    Pink Floyd • The Wall
    Another of my $1 junk shop finds

    Can't beat that price. One of my absolute favorites. Not sure where it falls on the CD, but side 3 on vinyl version is a fantastic demonstrator when friends are over that like Pink Floyd

    I see you’re relatively new here. Welcome :smiley:
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  • pumpkinman
    pumpkinman Posts: 9,497
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  • pumpkinman wrote: »

    I see you’re relatively new here. Welcome :smiley:

    Thank you! I’ve been around a little while but only lurking. Glad to be in the mix! Cheers
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  • BlueFox
    BlueFox Posts: 15,251
    Time for Tuesday night beer and tunes.

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  • BlueFox
    BlueFox Posts: 15,251
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  • audioluvr
    audioluvr Posts: 5,420
    edited December 2021
    DividedSky wrote: »
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    I always question when they say "Original Master Recording". Really? So what exactly were the "First" albums that came out? Cheap knockoffs? No way.

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  • BlueFox
    BlueFox Posts: 15,251
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    Magico S5 MKII Mcast Rose speakers; SPOD spikes

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  • DividedSky
    DividedSky Posts: 108
    edited December 2021
    audioluvr wrote: »
    I always question when they say "Original Master Recording". Really? So what exactly were the "First" albums that came out? Cheap knockoffs? No way.

    I guess they started that phrasing because they were, in all cases, repressing a record that had already been released. So the purpose would be to communicate or advertise that the repress laucquer was cut from the original master tapes. When they have released pressings that were from a digital master or non-first generation master, that area says "Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs" rather than original master recording
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  • SIHAB
    SIHAB Posts: 4,493
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  • dromunds wrote: »
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    LP

    Just spun this last weekend. Great new release for those that like MMJ
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  • SIHAB
    SIHAB Posts: 4,493
    edited December 2021
    NOS
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    An all official release. Limited to 1000 copies only.
    The Jackie Fountains were an obscure beat group from a small rural town in Sweden.
    They broke up in 1967, but several years later lead guitarist Hasse Wärmling was in an early line-up of the Stranglers. He left the group before they became successful, but they held on to a song he had co-written with Hugh Cornwell, "Strange Little Girl," the music of which dated back to Wärmling´s Jackie Fountains days. The Stranglers demoed the song with Wärmling as early as 1974 (it can be heard on the Early Years Rare & Unreleased 1974-76 CD, and it´s wonderful), but it was not until 1982 that they re-recorded it and it became one of their biggest hits.
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    1984 UK LP;
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  • SIHAB
    SIHAB Posts: 4,493
    edited December 2021
    OH NO! L.A. pressing 1978
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    1982 U.S. pressing
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  • SIHAB
    SIHAB Posts: 4,493
    2011 LP, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, 180 Gram;
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  • SIHAB
    SIHAB Posts: 4,493
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    The single came with some of the original 'New Traditionalists' LP
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  • jbreezy5
    jbreezy5 Posts: 1,141
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    Bjork, not MJ; Lol
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  • pumpkinman
    pumpkinman Posts: 9,497
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    Stone Free a tribute to Jimi Hendrix
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  • SIHAB
    SIHAB Posts: 4,493
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  • gudnoyez
    gudnoyez Posts: 8,056
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    A little Christmas music wrapping last minute gifts listening to Trans-Siberian Christmas Eve And Other Stories then Carpenters Christmas Portrait.
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  • pumpkinman
    pumpkinman Posts: 9,497
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    Edgar Froese • Solo (1974-1983) The Virgin Years……..Disc One
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  • pumpkinman
    pumpkinman Posts: 9,497
    edited December 2021
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    Merry Christmas everyone
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  • pumpkinman
    pumpkinman Posts: 9,497
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    The Sisters Of Mercy • First And Last And Always
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  • SIHAB
    SIHAB Posts: 4,493
    UK Comp
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  • SIHAB
    SIHAB Posts: 4,493
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  • dromunds
    dromunds Posts: 9,969
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    Throwing this Dylan back on because it’s a double LP and because it’s his best in a long time