Sonata Arctica - UnOpened single (mispressing, very rare )
€
150
$
174
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Description
First track, UnOpened, is screwed up during the mastering. The song has been resampled from 48 kHz to 44,1 kHz so the song is slower, out of tune and about 20 seconds longer than the normal version. The mispressing is very rare indeed, only about 200 copies were sold before the record company noticed the mistake and pulled all singles away from the shops. This is a true collector's item and extremely hard to find even second hand. Also, the very few copies available for sale are priced very high. Only for true collectors.
There are two ways to recognize this first version:
1) The digits 9070513 are carved in the innermost (just before the transparent section) "circle" of the CD. (The digits in the "normal" version are 9080612.)
2) Put the CD into a CD player - if the first track lasts over four minutes and sounds "weird" (ie. out of tune, vocals are lower than normally), the CD is from the first pressing. The cover papers are the same on both versions showing the track lengths of the first pressing, checking the track lengths from the paper doesn't reveal any information. (This also means the "normal" version has a typo on the paper since the "correct" version of UnOpened lasts only 3:47!)
