THE SEEDS "A Web of Sound" 1966 MISPRINT vinyl NM/NM- great mastering

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This is a very first pressing from 1966 that has some misprints that would quickly be corrected as the pressing run went on: "Mr. Farmer" is called "The Farmer" on the sleeve, and the playing time for that song doesn't match what's on the label; also they forgot to put the album title on the record labels! So this is very very early in the process.
And it's a great mastering, one of those that justifies the whole thing of seeking out vinyl, and then again, seeking out original vinyl rather than recent computerized masterings. The record-cutter people back then were real artists, and played their lathe like a violin.
It's funny because there are bands like this one where I forget how great their albums are as a whole, just because my first experience with them was hearing their one and only big hit on the radio. Most groups weren't making great albums in the '60s; once they had a 45 hit, the record company would just throw them in the studio to run through a bunch of filler ("Hey Joe" was always on there), knock out a spiritless record in one or two sessions, and have cheap product on the album shelves asap. 
Of course there were great bands that were ready for this move. Like the Who, like the Kinks, when the company told them they needed to come up with 11 songs by Thursday, they sat down to pick out which of their 40 original numbers would work best. That's why Beatles albums were so good, and Stones albums only gradually became worth buying.
But we always miss out on the "one hit wonders" who actually had a depth of original songs that were great but never made the charts. We just assume their LPs were filler. But the Remains, the Troggs, the Seeds, these were groups ready with albums-worth of great stuff that they'd already honed in their live shows. So dozens of great songs were kind of lost on LPs that nobody bought.
And this is one like that. A typical treasure from 1966--snotty garage band meets the first entering wedge of psychedelics, writes songs like "Tripmaker" and "Rollin Machine", portrays itself as floating in a giant spiderweb on the cover, and then gets no sales because there's no follow-up to "Pushin Too Hard" on here. And yet it's still as good an album as we could ever ask for, and a great discovery.