There are another couple up for grabs that at least have pictures of the posters/stickers, plus seem to have better covers:
PINK FLOYD. WITH SOLID BLUE TRIANGLE LABEL. 1973 UK 1 st PRESSING HARVEST SHVL 804. DARK SIDE OF THE MOON LP. ALL THE ABOVE ARE CORRECT FOR A 1st PRESSING ISSUE. A RARE AND HARD TO FIND LP. CAREFULLY CHECKED UNDER STRONG 100 W LIGHT.
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That said my spider-sense/paranoia is triggering and I think I might just see some black marker here and there! If I was interested in a record of this price I’d really want to inspect it in person and spend a lot of time doing so.
PS I have had an incomplete (no posters/stickers) VG+/borderline-EX copy pass through a few years ago:
It was interesting as it gave me the opportunity to compare it to my own bog-standard ‘70s reissue. It is superb, it sounded exactly like my mental image of DSOTM, though I’d not say it was vastly ahead of any 1970s UK copy. They all sound like exactly the same cut-master and are all pressed well. They sound very similar to the original Japanese (pre-emphasis) ‘black triangle’ CD and the first J for UK black-face. I’m certain they are all taken from the same vinyl cutting master. All bets are off on later issues, foreign issues etc, e.g. the US 1st press, the MoFi, the 30th Anniversary etc sound like crap in comparison to my ears (sorry Mike at The In Groove, you are way off with this one, even if you did pick the ‘blue triangle‘ 1st!).
As such my advice for anyone wanting a nice copy is just to hunt the best condition and maybe earliest UK ‘outline triangle’ you can. My own copy is a bog-standard 1977 5th A10/B9 pressing, and it has its posters and stickers. I’d happily swap it out for an earlier copy in as good or better condition, but I’d not pay money to do so (i.e. I’d just do my usual juggling if one came in a collection). It’s fine. It sounds better than anything else I’ve heard aside from the solid blue.
PS FWIW Michael 45 of ‘the best Youtube glasses’ fame reckons the German 1st press is better than the UK blue triangle. I tend to agree with him on a lot of things, but whether I would here I don’t know (I’ve never heard one). Both he and In Groove Mike are coming at it as very much younger people who came to it decades after release may not have the ‘fixed mental image’ of those of us who grew up with it. I do think this stuff is significant and is likely why I consider a lot of remixes and re-imaginings of classic albums as unlistenable shite. They should just recreate the 1st press IMO. Let it be what it is, what it always has been.
