Prince and the New Power Generation Love Symbol Vinyl LP

	£		195
	$		258

Opportunity for a bargain, this is a copy of the rare and brilliant "Love Symbol" LP from Prince from 1992-one of his best albums.
This album is an ideal play copy.  It plays through perfectly from start to finish with no skips, pops, no hissing and virtually no surface noise but it is a used played record I have owned since 1994.  It has some some inaudible manufacturing blemishes, and some significant but inaudible surface marks which you may or may not care about and I will list below.
Please note: I am a very, very conservative grader of LPs and I prefer to be specific about condition rather than give grades which often conceal the things record collectors actually want to know about.  I do not grade any played record (even a "mint" one above very good condition as I think it is dishonest).  Please do read my descriptions. I know they're long winded but I appreciate this sort of thing when I am buying used vinyl.
Cover: Fair-Good condition.  All double albums manufactured by Warners back in the early 90s had these very thin card sleeves.  This is a single pocket double album sleeve, which damages and marks very easily even from new and I don't actually recall this being sealed when I bought it otherwise it would still have its shrink on it.  There is "normal use" wear to the opening corners, some pressure creasing, which has occurred over the years, some indentation marks and pressure creasing to the bottom right of the sleeve.  All of this is light and in a plastic sleeve  is barely noticeable.  The centre of the front cover is just starting to crack (photo 6).  The records will not be shipped in the cover to prevent the sleeve tearing.  It is not especially noticeable but all of these are age related blemishes.  This album comes from a smoke free home but the inside of the sleeve is going yellow and and to my nose smells slightly tobacco-ish but this has never occupied a home with cigarettes!  The front and back cover images are glorious and unfaded.  In a plastic sleeve these blemishes are not particularly noticeable but it does have wear.  The glue on the sticker is starting to discolour it-natural aging.
Lyric inner sleeves: Again, in the 90s Warners used this thin scratchy paper for all their records (Madonna/Red Hot Chili Peppers etc. albums all the same).  Incredibly, neither of the inners are split (which was common even from new) but they are starting to yellow-a reaction from the inside of the outer sleeve.  The sleeves did have creasing from new, which you can see in picture 10.  No writing or any of that business.
Discs: Both records play through from start to finish and sound fantastic but they are used and have occasional very light surface noise.  There are no pops, no skips or hissing/scraping or excessive surface noise. However, both records have factory blemishes and also have surface scuff marks and hair lines.  There are occasional clicks.
Disc 1: Plays perfectly and sounds superb-songs like "The Max" blast out and put the CD to shame.  Very, very brief light ambient vinyl surface noise at the start of side 1 but in literally the first 5 seconds or so.  There are some inaudible manufacturing blemishes on the disc: There are some inaudible pits in the surface which cannot be heard at all and a small "rise" in the playing surface on "Sexy MF".  There is one virtually inaudible "thwump" in the silence between "Sexy MF" and "To the 9's" caused by a little bump in the surface. The record plays perfectly but these are defects and I like to call these things out.  Very occasional little clicks here and there-absolutely no pops.  The record does have a lot of inaudible hairlines and marks from the scratchy sleeves.  However both discs have been in poly sleeves since the late 90s.
Disc 2: For some reason this disc was covered in surface marks from brand new.  It plays perfectly however, it has an enormous but inaudible scuff mark running across Side 3, which I did not care about as a teenager but was there from new.  It also has a vertical manufacturing scuff as well on side 3 but again totally inaudible.  Spindle marks as well.  There is a single click in the silence between "The Continental" and "Damn U".  There are also some inaudible surface pits on this disc.  Inaudible scuff marks and hairlines. Just occasional little ticks here and there on side 4 and some very minor surface noise on the interlude of chit chat between Prince and Kirstie Alley. Plays with no pops or skips but this disc has a lot of marks and for this reason alone I grade it to be in visually fair condition but plays excellently. 
This is an ideal play copy of this 90s masterpiece.  No copies of this album are ever on ebay for less than £100 but I am hoping this goes to a Prince loving home and perhaps someone collecting his records on a budget.  I will not take it off auction (please don't ask) and whatever it sells for, it sells for.  I have always looked after this album and despite the visual blemishes it plays excellently.  Given the awful sleeves, I doubt any copies of this record do not have marks on them anyway.  Please note in particular what I say about Disc 2.  If a long scuff mark and surface marks/hairlines are the sort of thing which is going to bother you-please don't bid on it.
UK Bidders only unless using the GSP.  Thanks!