New Order Blue Monday FIRST PRESS "Outvoted" Heavy Silver Inner A1 B1 VG++

	£		41
	$		54

From Punk to Indi to Industrial to Gothic to Techno to Ambient.

Welcome to a listing from my personal record collection.

A vinyl journey spanning some 18 years and over 1000 pressings from 1977 to 1995.

THIS LISTING IS FOR

Artist New Order

Tiltle Blue Monday

Format 12" vinyl single

Pressing First UK pressing 1983

Lable Factory Records

Label Code No Label code

Barcode No Barcode

Matrix A Side  FACT-73-A1 MT.4 STRAWBERRY Out Voted !  (etched and stamped)

Matrix B Side  FACT-73-B MT.4 HO.EL+TEL! STRAWBERRY  (etched and stamped)

TRACK LISTING

A Side Blue Monday

B Side The Beach

Where were you when Kennedy was assassinated,

or when Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon...

...or when you first heard Blue Monday?

I was a spotty Geordie lad, fresh off the train at Kings Cross, still talking to people on the tube and sleeping on

a friends floor while doing work experience at FCB, an advertising agency on Baker street.

Anyway, enough about me, back to the matter in hand.

This is a listing for my cherished copy of Blue Monday, bought on the day after release in Virgin Oxford Street.

It is a superb copy, glossy and fingerprint free. I have just played it and the sound is as punchy and clean

as when it first graced my turn table back in 83.

Listening to it again just now I very nearly decided not to list it, so you are lucky to have the opportunity to bid on it.

If you are looking at this I don't need to tell you about how to tell a true first pressing,

or the story behind the reason for 'Outvoted' being inscribed on the runout...you know all of that I'm sure.

There are a few superficial marks, but as mentioned I have just played it and the sound quality is still awesome.

None of the few scuffs have any affect on the play at all. Sad to see it go. Hope it does go to a good home.

As you can see from the images the cover and inner sleeve are in excellent condition.

There is a crease on both sides of the silver inner sleeve that you can see through the big circular die cut hole in the

outer sleeve. The spine is perfect and the corners are all sharp.

Unless otherwise stated every record was purchased by myself from new and only ever played

by myself on my own deck and with as expensive a cartridge as I could afford at the time.

When it comes to attributing a grading to each of my records I will confess I am not an expert.

And while both the Goldmine standard and The Record Collectors systems give us a number of agreed fundamentals

to help determine a grading for vinyl and its associated media, attributing a true and accurate grading to something as

individual as a pre-owned piece of Vinyl is unavoidably subjective.

One person?s ?slight scuff? may be another?s deal breaker.

With this in mind I will endeavour to describe as accurately as possible, in the descriptions of each listing,

not only what I feel to be a fair grading, but also an overall description of the record in question, along with details

of any and all marks, defects and anomalies I can see.

I am a firm believer in the maxim of - if you can feel it you can hear it.

So if there is anything that looks or feels like it may possibly affect a record?s playing quality or sound clarity,

and therefore the pleasure derived from listening to it or its true value to an collector, I will give it one final spin

and make my findings known in the product description.

Over and above this I am happy to take returns.

I personally wouldn?t bid on a pre-owned record without the option to return it if I felt that the seller hadn?t been

totally truthful and transparent in their description of it, or that on receipt it didn?t live up to my expectations. 

And I do not expect you to do so either. 

So please, feel free to bid with confidence.

I am a professional photographer by trade, and have gone to great lengths to light and photograph covers, inner sleeves

and the vinyl?s themselves in such a way as to show, as accurately as possible, the actual condition of all.

Rest assured that what you see is exactly what will be despatched to you if you are the successful winner of each listing.

Before photographing each record went through a three stage cleaning process:

1 ? removal of any surface dust with a light brushing over with a carbon fibre and velvet disc cleaning pad

2- deep cleaning with large (Big Fudge) velvet pad and cleaning solution

3- A final brushing with a Pro-Ject carbon fibre record brush.

And finally, because Mr or Mrs  Poasty may not handle your record with the same care and reverence that you or I would,

I will dispatch in a specialised corrugated cardboard record mailing outer, and if I feel even more protection is required

I will also include two extra sheets of 3mm corrugated cardboard for added safety and protection.

Thanks for taking the time to read this and for showing an interest

in giving a new home to one of my records.

I have other listings live right now and will be adding new ones on a regular basis,

so please do take a peak and stay tuned for more.