Beatles Revolver Taiwan Import First Record Label FL-1337 Stereo LP
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Beatles Revolver Taiwan Import First Record Label FL-1337 Stereo LP. Visually Graded - Record: VG Cover: Good
Will be mailed in a cardboard record mailer.
A little history!
First Record (Also appears as "First" only) is a label of questionable legality from Taiwan, catering to soldiers (mostly from the US) stationed there. They also did sell to locals. Some sources claim the records were legal in that country, but this is still a controversial point of view. The releases are mostly copies from US or Japanese releases, often with altered colors, and include a wide array of styles.
Pressed in Taiwan to cash in on the 35,000 or so GI's that were stationed there between the 1950s and 1970s. The albums were usually pressed in batches of about 500, with no two batches looking or sounding the same (ie different covers, vinyl colors). Covers were usually recycled, meaning art for a totally different album was on the reverse side of the paper (covers were thin paper wrapped in cellophane). For context, Taiwan was the pirate capital of SEA (followed closely by Thailand and the Philippines).
So how did pirates get hold of the master tapes? The pirate would buy a copy of the album and record it onto tape and this would serve as the "master tape". Up until the late 1960s the sleeves and labels were printed in Taiwan, but afterwards most were printed in the Philippines.
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