Happy Mondays Squirrel & G-Man FIRST UK PRESS (Desmond) Fact 170 NEAR MINT

	£		66
	$		87

From Punk to Indi to Industrial to Gothic to Techno to Ambient.

Welcome to a listing from my personal record collection.

A vinyl journey spanning some 18 years and over 1000 pressings from 1977 to 1995.

THIS LISTING IS FOR

Artist Happy Mondays

Tiltle Squirrel And G-Man Twenty Four Hour Party People

Plastic Face Carnt Smile (White Out)

Format 12" vinyl album

Pressing First UK pressing 1987

Lable Factory Records

Label Code FACT 170

Barcode No Barcode

Matrix A Side  FACT 170 A1 TOWNHOUSE DO IT FASTER MPO (etched)

Matrix B Side  170 B1 TOWNHOUSE DO IT AGAIN MPO (etched)

TRACK LISTING

A Side 1 KUFF DAM   2 TART TART   3 'ENTRY   4 RUSSELL   5 OLIVE OIL

B Side 1 WEEKEND S   2 LITTLE MATCHSTICK OWEN   3 OASIS   4 DEASMOND   5 COB 20

A truly exceptional copy of Mr Shaun Rider and his 'merry' men's debut album

(and yes, I do mean merry in a drink fuelled crazy Manc kind of way).

Vinyl is as near mint condition as could be, as I have only played the album once.

First pressing with 'Desmond' on the B side, before they were forced to replace it with

'24 Hour Party People' due to copyright issues.

I never removed the 'Our Price' sticker from the PVC liner. If you want to leave it there for Old time sake..Ahhhh...

Our Price, then fine. If not it will be easy to remove without causing damage.

The condition of the playing surfaces is as near mint as I believe you are likely to find in a record that has been played.

The playing surfaces of both sides are beautifully glossy, dust and fingerprint free.

A Side  Nothing to report. No marks or hairlines, just lovely black glossy vinyl.

B Side  Also perfect to my eye.

There are some not quite jet black areas, streaks on both sides, but I am pretty sure they are due to the quality of Vinyl used

in manufacturing and not the result of any mistreatment or wear. 

This album has had very little time spent on the turn table and there are absolutely no spindle marks at all on ether label.

Outer PVC liner and sleeve are both in excellent condition.

The sleeve has some extremely minor dinks on the open side that sticks out of the PVC liner that can be seen in the

listing images. The condition of the spine is perfect.

Unless otherwise stated every record was purchased by myself from new and only ever played

by myself on my own deck and with as expensive a cartridge as I could afford at the time.

When it comes to attributing a grading to each of my records I will confess I am not an expert.

And while both the Goldmine standard and The Record Collectors systems give us a number of agreed fundamentals

to help determine a grading for vinyl and its associated media, attributing a true and accurate grading to something as

individual as a pre-owned piece of Vinyl is unavoidably subjective.

One person's 'slight scuff' may be another's deal breaker.

With this in mind I will endeavour to describe as accurately as possible, in the descriptions of each listing,

not only what I feel to be a fair grading, but also an overall description of the record in question, along with details

of any and all marks, defects and anomalies I can see.

I am a firm believer in the maxim of - if you can feel it you can hear it.

So if there is anything that looks or feels like it may possibly affect a record's playing quality or sound clarity,

and therefore the pleasure derived from listening to it or its true value to an collector, I will give it one final spin

and make my findings known in the product description.

Over and above this I am happy to take returns.

I personally wouldn't bid on a pre-owned record without the option to return it if I felt that the seller hadn't been

totally truthful and transparent in their description of it, or that on receipt it didn't live up to my expectations. 

And I do not expect you to do so either. 

So please, feel free to bid with confidence.

I am a professional photographer by trade, and have gone to great lengths to light and photograph covers, inner sleeves

and the vinyl's themselves in such a way as to show, as accurately as possible, the actual condition of all.

Rest assured that what you see is exactly what will be despatched to you if you are the successful winner of each listing.

Before photographing each record went through a three stage cleaning process:

1 - Removal of any surface dust with a light brushing over with a carbon fibre and velvet disc cleaning pad

2 - Deep cleaning with large (Big Fudge) velvet pad and cleaning solution

3 - A final brushing with a Pro-Ject carbon fibre record brush.

And finally, because Mr or Mrs  Poasty may not handle your record with the same care and reverence that you or I would,

I will dispatch in a specialised corrugated cardboard record mailing outer, and if I feel even more protection is required

I will also include two extra sheets of 3mm corrugated cardboard for added safety and protection.

Thanks for taking the time to read this and for showing an interest

in giving a new home to one of my records.

I have other listings live right now and will be adding new ones on a regular basis,

so please do take a peak and stay tuned for more.