Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms (Vinyl, 1985, Near Mint)
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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 -
Ah, the record that launched a thousand CD players. This is of course the vinyl version. And a very fine copy it is too. Nice that folk have finally come round to the realisation that CD doesn't intrinsically sound better than vinyl. They only got away with that to any degree back then because most people used cr*ppy record decks, but if you had good kit, vinyl always made digital sound weak and watery.
Anyway, enough of my Neil Young impressions.
The vinyl here is near perfect. I can (sometimes) see one hairline on side one, but it definitely can't be heard. other than that all clean and unmarked. Record is stored in poly-lined sleeve, but original laminated lyric inner present and unmarked.
Sleeve is also completely clean and fresh.
Almost like buying a new copy
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