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Post by fabdba on Dec 10, 2009 18:54:17 GMT -5
There were about 8 of them at my local Best Buy (Madison, WI - West Side) and the shelf sticker said $229. Just an FYI
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Post by wolfsblood on Dec 12, 2009 18:38:47 GMT -5
I saw a couple mono box sets at Zia Records in Tempe, AZ but they were very pricy at about $265. I just need the White Album and Sgt. Pepper mostly since everyone raves about those in mono.
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Post by John S. Damm on Dec 13, 2009 1:06:10 GMT -5
I saw a couple mono box sets at Zia Records in Tempe, AZ but they were very pricy at about $265. I just need the White Album and Sgt. Pepper mostly since everyone raves about those in mono. I hope not to be in AZ when wolfsblood gets the mono White Album: blood will spill in that state and his children of the night will be howling at the moon!
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Post by winstonoboogie on Dec 13, 2009 11:44:36 GMT -5
I saw a couple mono box sets at Zia Records in Tempe, AZ but they were very pricy at about $265. I just need the White Album and Sgt. Pepper mostly since everyone raves about those in mono. I hope not to be in AZ when wolfsblood gets the mono White Album: blood will spill in that state and his children of the night will be howling at the moon! ;D
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Post by glenn1966 on Dec 30, 2009 19:54:14 GMT -5
I just took the plunge and bought one at Best Buy for 249.00 + tax. I have some extra freelance work coming up that'll cover it.
A few quick impressions: The Night Before has a "dryer" vocal.
The British mono "I'm Only Sleeping" is even more different from my mono copy of Yesterday And Today, a prized oddity in my collection.
In the final days of vinyl ('87), I was looking to fill the gaps in my Capitol collection, so I swung by my local mall record shop for Yesterday And Today. It even had the "full dimensional stereo" graphic at the top. The label was the '80s colorband that Capitol brought back.
I got home to play it, and lo and behold, IT WAS IN MONO.
How it happened, I don't know.
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Post by glenn1966 on Dec 30, 2009 20:34:27 GMT -5
Also...
The plastic outer sleeves are a pain in the butt and I'm not sure whether to place the CD (once I slide it into the circular sleeve) into the paper sleeve??? Or is that paper sleeve just for show?
A minor quibble.
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Post by John S. Damm on Dec 31, 2009 1:31:43 GMT -5
Also... The plastic outer sleeves are a pain in the butt and I'm not sure whether to place the CD (once I slide it into the circular sleeve) into the paper sleeve??? Or is that paper sleeve just for show? A minor quibble. LOL! I wondered the very same thing. I kept my mono discs in the inner plastic circular sleeve and left the historically accurate paper sleeve for show.
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Post by glenn1966 on Jan 1, 2010 13:29:48 GMT -5
LOL! I wondered the very same thing. I kept my mono discs in the inner plastic circular sleeve and left the historically accurate paper sleeve for show. The white album had black paper sleeves?
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Post by John S. Damm on Jan 1, 2010 14:18:51 GMT -5
LOL! I wondered the very same thing. I kept my mono discs in the inner plastic circular sleeve and left the historically accurate paper sleeve for show. The white album had black paper sleeves? I don't know! I need to reopen my 2009 mono White Album c.d. as I don't recall black sleeves coming with it. That would be a good question for our senior citizens here about the original White Album dust sleeves being in black. The paper dust jackets from the earlier Beatles' mono albums even included the instructions on how to care for the vinyl records. I can vaguely remember those kind of paper sleeves from my parents' records although they unfortunately weren't Beatles' albums.
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Post by vectisfabber on Jan 1, 2010 19:58:08 GMT -5
The white album (vinyl) had a garefold sleeve to house the two records. The two sides opened at the tops rather than at the ends (the only time I ever saw that). Each album had the green apple on the A side label and the cut (white) apple on the B side. Each record was in a black paper inner sleeve. The 4 colour glossy photos (reproduced in b/w inside the gatefold) lived with the first record and the poster lived with the second record.
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Post by John S. Damm on Jan 2, 2010 13:25:45 GMT -5
The white album (vinyl) had a garefold sleeve to house the two records. The two sides opened at the tops rather than at the ends (the only time I ever saw that). Each album had the green apple on the A side label and the cut (white) apple on the B side. Each record was in a black paper inner sleeve. The 4 colour glossy photos (reproduced in b/w inside the gatefold) lived with the first record and the poster lived with the second record. Thanks vectis! I never knew that the paper sleeves were black on the original 1968 White Album. By the time I was given the vinyl album in 1976, there were no numbers on the cover and just white paper sleeves for the record. I didn't really notice the replica black paper sleeves in the 2009 Mono White Album.
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