THE CURE. DISINTEGRATION. 1st UK PRESS. Vinyl LP VG+ A1 B1. FIXH 14. 1989

	£		31
	$		41

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 The Cure

Title Disintegration

Format 12" vinyl album

Pressing First UK pressing 1989

Label Fiction Records

Label Code LC 6444

Barcode 0 42283 93531 0

Matrix A Side  8393531 A-1U-1-3 HOW THE END (stamped & etched)

Matrix B Side  8393531 B-1-1-4 ALWAYS IS (stamped & etched)

TRACK LISTING

A Side 1 Plainsong   2 Pictures Of You   3 Closedown   4 Love Song   5 Lullaby   6 Fascination Street

B Side 1 Prayers For Rain   2 The Same Deep Water As You   3 Disintegration   4 Untitled

A vey good first pressing copy of the Cure's 1989 album.

The condition of the playing surfaces is excellent.

Both sides have a very nice high sheen and are dust and fingerprint free.

The vinyl looks totally unmarked.

Inexplicably for a record that looks so good, there is some crackling

at the start of both sides, it is most prominent at the beginning of 'Prayers For Rain', 

but still evident intermittently throughout the track. By the start of 

'The same deep water as you', it is greatly reduced, almost disappearing completely.

I have cleaned with a Disco-antistat and it has helped somewhat.

This may be helped further If the record is pro cleaned,

but as I don't have the opportunity to do this I can't say for sure.

I have put a very low starting price for a first pressing of this album

due to the crackling mentioned above.

The outer sleeve is in very good condition.

There is a small amount of wear to the corners, and a little dunch to the top right one.

The spine is in very good condition.

There is a split of about 15mm in the middle of the top seam.

This can be seen in the listing images of both the front and back cover.

The original printed inner sleeve is in superb condition.

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 a 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 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. I will combine postage, so please do ask.