David Bowie Blackstar Vinyl LP Clear 180 gram + 5 BONUS items NEW SEALED 2016

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(EX or EX-)

A RECORD, COVER, INNER SLEEVE, INSERT OR POSTER WITH ONLY MINOR DEFECTS. THIS IS NOT A NM GRADE.

(VG++)

THE RECORD WILL SHOW SIGNS THAT IT WAS PLAYED. RECORD SURFACE WILL HAVE LIGHT SCUFFS OR LIGHT SCRATCHES THAT MAY EFFECT PLAY OR LISTENING EXPERIENCE. MAY HAVE LIGHT SURFACE NOISE. LABEL MAY HAVE LIGHT WEAR.

THE COVER WILL HAVE LIGHT SIGNS OF WEAR AND MAY HAVE A CUT OUT HOLE, A SLICE CUT, A CORNER CUT, INDENTATIONS, CORNER BUMPS, RING WEAR OR A SEAM SPLIT.

THE INNER SLEEVES, INSERTS OR POSTERS WILL HAVE LIGHT HANDLING WEAR, CREASES, SEAM SPLITS, TURNED UP OR FOLDED CORNERS.

(VG+)

ALL THE SAME CONDITIONS AS VG++. ONLY A LITTLE MORE EVIDENT. SHOULD BE ACCEPTABLE BY MOST BUYERS.

(VG)

NOT GREAT, BUT NOT HORRIBLE.

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COVER - SEALED

VINYL LOOKS - SEALED

INNER SLEEVE - SEALED

SOUND - SEALED

INSERT - SEALED

Album Cover is MINT

There is 5 newspapers included from January 12, 2016.

Each has the front page and all the relevant pages related to David's passing, some have career time lines or special commentary or remembrances.

Album and newspapers will be double boxed and insured.

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ISO Records – 88875173871, Columbia – 88875173871

Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Clear, 180 gram

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08 Jan 2016

A1 ? (Blackstar) 09:57

A2 'Tis A Pity She Was A Whore 04:52

A3 Lazarus 06:22

B1 Sue (Or In A Season Of Crime) 04:40

B2 Girl Loves Me 04:51

B3 Dollar Days 04:44

B4 I Can't Give Everything Away 05:47.

Phonographic Copyright (p) – ISO Records

Copyright (c) – ISO Records

Licensed To – Columbia Records

Manufactured By – Columbia Records

Distributed By – Columbia Records

Mastered At – Sterling Sound

Pressed By – MPO

Design [Album Design] – Barnbrook*

Mastered By – RJ*

Mixed By [Final Master Mix] – Tom Elmhirst

Photography By – Jimmy King (6), Johan Renck

Producer, Mixed By – David Bowie, Tony Visconti

Remastered By – Joe LaPorta

This listing is for the U.S. version. Label Code and Rights Societies are NOT PRESENT on the label. Sony Music and its logo DO NOT appear on the label as they do on the EU version. The EU version with Label Code and Rights Societies can be found here: David Bowie - ? (Blackstar)

Limited to 5000 worldwide, per the David Bowie website. No designated allocations for each region were mentioned; however, links where to buy (distributors in UK, EU or U.S.) were provided. Included in this listing are Barnes and Noble "exclusives" and those sold from Bowie's website. All pressings seem to have the same Matrix/Runout info, catalog number and barcode (except for barcode stickers placed over the shrinkwrap to determine differences). The differences lie in the Sony Music and its logo, Label Code and Rights Societies which, again, can be found in the EU version here: David Bowie - ? (Blackstar)

Includes: Record pressed on clear vinyl (advertised and sold as "clear", but is, in actuality, clear opaque) within a clear plastic wallet sleeve housed in a die-cut gatefold jacket, 16-page 12"x12" square booklet insert with tone-on-tone overlays, lyrics and photos, and a coupon with a download code for a digital copy of the full album.

Records sold at Barnes and Noble have a hype sticker on front that states "Barnes and Noble Exclusive" and a barcode sticker on rear outside of shrinkwrap: 8 88751 88851 6

Individual records or bundle options from Bowie's website have only one sticker on front: "Parental Advisory Explicit Content" and a barcode sticker on rear outside of shrinkwrap: 8 88751 88851 7

Barcode printed on rear jacket: 8 88751 73871 3

Barcode: 888751738713

Barcode (On Barnes and Noble sticker): 8 88751 88851 6

Barcode (On Litho "bundle" sticker): 8 88751 88851 7

Matrix / Runout (Side A; etched): MPO 15-0736 A 88875-17387-1A RJ

Matrix / Runout (Side B; etched): MPO 15-0736 B 88875-17387-1B RJ

Matrix / Runout (Side A; label (also states info for Side B -- referred to as "Other Side (Side 2)"): Side 1 C-139259/AL88875173871 Side 2 C-139259/BL88875173871

Matrix / Runout (Sides A & B; stamped): STERLING

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Dezeen Magazine Daily

20 January 2016

David Bowie was "facing his own mortality" with Blackstar album says cover designer

Blackstar, represented by a ? symbol, was released on 8 January 2016 – Bowie's 69th birthday.

The album has since been interpreted as a poignant farewell and has topped charts worldwide.

The album artwork was one of five that Barnbrook worked on with Bowie in the last 15 years.

Speaking to Dezeen, Barnbrook explained how he would work directly with Bowie rather than via his management team, discussing ideas via email or Skype.

"He always wanted to do something interesting, often to the annoyance of the record company," Barnbrook said. "He understood the value of the image on a record cover, when other people had forgotten about it."

The designer added that Bowie was, more than anyone else, the artist responsible for bringing "art-school thinking into the mainstream."king the British designer one of the recording star's closest and longest-serving collaboBarnbrook's cover for Bowie's last record positions a large black star in the centre of a white background. The design is simple, but full of symbolism, he told Dezeen.

"This was a man who was facing his own mortality," said Barnbrook. "The Blackstar symbol [?], rather than writing 'Blackstar', has as a sort of finality, a darkness, a simplicity, which is a representation of the music.""It's subsided a bit now, but a lot of people said it was a bullshit cover when it came out, that it took five minutes to design," he added. "But I think there is a misunderstanding about the simplicity."

The use of abstract shapes was developed from Barnbrook's previous controversial cover for The Next Day album. The design features a white square covering an old photo of Bowie and was influenced by Constructivist art.

The black star graphic also carries deeper meanings, said Barnbrook.

"The idea of mortality is in there, and of course the idea of a black hole sucking in everything, the Big Bang, the start of the universe, if there is an end of the universe," Barnbrook said. "These are things that relate to mortality."

For the vinyl edition, the star is cut out from the black sleeve so the record inside is visible.

"The fact that you can see the record as a physical thing that degrades, it gets scratched as soon as it comes into being, that is a comment on mortality too," said Barnbrook.