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Post by Mustang Bass on Dec 1, 2015 0:15:54 GMT
I've just dug out my blue tin version and it has an extra album in it , there was a mis-pressing done on the initial copies with side 5 being pressed onto two discs! Replacement discs were supplied about a week after release. I had one of those mis- pressings, went straight back to HMV and they exchanged it there and then, bugger waiting a week for replacement discs! I wonder if those mis- pressings would be worth anything now?
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Post by muzz on Dec 1, 2015 2:10:58 GMT
Got three tims. First I brought when released from Tower Records in New York City back in 1982 I think it was. Still have all three and all numbered.....
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Post by quollector on Dec 1, 2015 14:56:19 GMT
There are 5 different releases/
The thin blue box numbered The thin blue box not numbered The bronze box not numbered The small thin blue box numbered : CD version : not official but very keen The carbon box: not numbered
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2015 15:09:11 GMT
There are 5 different releases/ The thin blue box numbered The thin blue box not numbered The bronze box not numbered The small thin blue box numbered : CD version : not official but very keen The carbon box: not numbered There were no numbered boxes.
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Post by quollector on Dec 1, 2015 19:37:41 GMT
There are 5 different releases/ The thin blue box numbered The thin blue box not numbered The bronze box not numbered The small thin blue box numbered : CD version : not official but very keen The carbon box: not numbered There were no numbered boxes. ? not numbered ? I can put the pix online
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Post by 4th Chord on Dec 1, 2015 20:03:51 GMT
The first Quo I owned, apart from the Lies single. Cardboard boxed cassette.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2015 21:09:38 GMT
There were no numbered boxes. ? not numbered ? I can put the pix online Go on then
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2015 22:47:08 GMT
? not numbered ? I can put the pix online Go on then Mine has a wee orange sticker on the very inside of the box behind the LPs that says 699 on it, with each paper sleeve having 699/1, 699/2, etc for each record number if that helps.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2015 0:08:12 GMT
Mine has a wee orange sticker on the very inside of the box behind the LPs that says 699 on it, with each paper sleeve having 699/1, 699/2, etc for each record number if that helps. Did you buy yours brand new? That sounds like the sort of thing a record shop would do when they masterbag the discs and display the empty box only.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2015 0:15:27 GMT
Mine has a wee orange sticker on the very inside of the box behind the LPs that says 699 on it, with each paper sleeve having 699/1, 699/2, etc for each record number if that helps. Did you buy yours brand new? That sounds like the sort of thing a record shop would do when they masterbag the discs and display the empty box only. I didn't get it immediately when it came out, maybe about a month later??
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2015 0:20:29 GMT
Did you buy yours brand new? That sounds like the sort of thing a record shop would do when they masterbag the discs and display the empty box only. I didn't get it immediately when it came out, maybe about a month later??
It does sound like a record shop master bag system.
They take the discs out and put them in a card sleeve behind the counter, they display in the racks only the box or main album sleeve (no records in means it doesn't get nicked). Some shops had their own numbering system to re-unite the records to the sleeve by numbering them, some used the record company catalogue number to do this. As each company had a wildly different catalogue numbering system some shops adopted their own, this sounds like one such system.
Where did you buy it?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2015 7:16:55 GMT
I didn't get it immediately when it came out, maybe about a month later??
It does sound like a record shop master bag system.
They take the discs out and put them in a card sleeve behind the counter, they display in the racks only the box or main album sleeve (no records in means it doesn't get nicked). Some shops had their own numbering system to re-unite the records to the sleeve by numbering them, some used the record company catalogue number to do this. As each company had a wildly different catalogue numbering system some shops adopted their own, this sounds like one such system.
Where did you buy it?
Ah, that's a good question... hmm... Belfast maybe.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2015 9:14:44 GMT
It does sound like a record shop master bag system.
They take the discs out and put them in a card sleeve behind the counter, they display in the racks only the box or main album sleeve (no records in means it doesn't get nicked). Some shops had their own numbering system to re-unite the records to the sleeve by numbering them, some used the record company catalogue number to do this. As each company had a wildly different catalogue numbering system some shops adopted their own, this sounds like one such system.
Where did you buy it?
Ah, that's a good question... hmm... Belfast maybe. It wasn't from Good Vibrations was it?
Back in the 70's, and 80's, (well until about the time the Virgin Megastore opened in Belfast), Northern Irish record shops were supplied by 2 wholesalers rather than direct from the Record Companies (transport costs, etc). One of these was Music Sales in Carrickfergus (can't remember the name of the other but it was very old fashioned), sometimes for low(ish) volume product these wholesalers used to over sticker the record catalogue number with their own.
I remember the first time I visited these wholesalers (late 80's), I stayed in the Europa Hotel in Belfast, it had a sign in the lobby saying:
'Welcome to the Europa Hotel, the most bombed hotel in Europe'
Always filled me with confidence that did!
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Post by quollector on Dec 2, 2015 15:25:27 GMT
It was even announced in the advertisment that they were numbered. On Ebay is the ad for sale ))
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Post by Mustang Bass on Dec 2, 2015 17:10:03 GMT
Remember the tv advert?
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