Beach Boys - Carl And The Passions / Pet Sounds (Vinyl, 1972, EX)
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General background -
This is one from my personal collection. I started buying records back in the '60s, probably bought most of my stuff in the late '60s and '70s. I carried on buying vinyl through into the '90s, but by that point it was more out of habit than desire - I always though of myself as "a vinyl guy" and although I was buying CDs by then, I grabbed any vinyl albums by artists I liked or was interested in. In a lot of these later cases they mostly never even got played. By that point I wasn't actually using my record deck/hi-fi much - if I bothered to play anything it tended to be via the PC and its own attached mini-system. When I last moved house around 2001 my hi-fi system got ignored and has only very recently come back in to use.
But when I did buy albums, I always took great care of them. I have plenty of albums that I bought over 50 years ago that could pass for new - unmarked and perfectly clean players. I've always handled, played, and stored my records carefully. Typically they've been stored properly in thick protective sleeves in purpose built cabinets, and I've always used good quality systems to play them on - in the past things like Pioneer or AR decks, and since the '80s a Roksan Xerxes/RB/OC9 combination.
After dragging my vinyl around for some 50-60 years, I've decided to finally retire most of it. I shall keep some old favourites, but other than that it will go. I've always felt that listening to vinyl should be a dedicated thing, and there are few occasions now when I feel like just sitting and giving a record the attention it deserves. Having a bit of digital music burbling away in the background while I'm doing something else is more the norm for me now.
I've tried to price things reasonably, allowing for the fact that most of them are in very good condition, and I'm listing a lot of them now as "fixed price" listings, rather than auctions, but all of them are open to offers.
This record -
I remember having to order this as an import (from Kelly's Records in Southend High Street, if anyone here remembers them), as at that time Pet Sounds was deleted and not available in the UK, hard to believe though that may be. That process seemed like a big adventure at the time, but I was well pleased with myself to finally get a copy of Pet Sounds. When it originally came out I would have been limited to paper round earnings, so my record buying habits were pretty small at that point.
Never was that impressed with the "Carl" album. Never felt like the real Beach Boys to me. But Pet Sounds is Pet Sounds. The label for it says stereo, but the sleeve states "This recording is pressed in monophonic sounds, the way Brian cut it".
The vinyl - "Carl" has a couple of hairlines, but "Pet Sounds" is clean and unmarked.
Original inners lightly creased in one corner, otherwise clean and bright.
Gatefold sleeve was (and still is) protected in a heavy vinyl cover all its life so still perfect except from slight wear to the opening edges.
A very nice copy of one so-so album and one masterpiece.
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