The Police GHOST IN THE MACHINE, Vintage Vinyl, 1st Press, A&M PROMO (1981)

$

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Selected titles from the private collection of a music business veteran are now being made available for the first time. Titles offered by this Seller are one-owner and came directly from the pressing plant, record company warehouse, other label reps or record store unless otherwise noted. 

Grading is based on visual inspection.

Album ships in a 2 MIL poly cover sleeve and a 2 MIL poly inner sleeve..

I package records outside the cover to avoid seam splits.

New and vintage vinyl is hard to grade strictly using eBay’s system because the record and the cover are two different components. Therefore, I call a record new and mint if it is opened but has never been played.  I use the grading category to describe the cover condition.

• This is a First Pressing and an A&M Records Promotional Copy of the classic album released in 1981.
• The gold foil Promo stamp is upper right back cover.
• The icons on the cover and labels are red, blue and green.
• The glossy single piece board cover has tight seams and has a couple of small corner bumps.
• The semi gloss inner sleeve has graphics on both sides. I have included a soft poly inner sleeve.
• This is a one-owner that the Seller got new from A&M Records in 1981. It has been in storage for 39 years.

Tracklist

Companies, etc.

• Recorded At – Air Studios, Montserrat
• Recorded At – Le Studio
• Phonographic Copyright (p) – A&M Records, Inc.
• Copyright (c) – A&M Records, Inc.

Credits

• Art Direction – Jeffrey Kent Ayeroff, Mick Haggerty
• Artwork [Art], Design – Mick Haggerty
• Producer – Hugh Padgham, The Police
• Written-By – Sting (tracks: A1 to B1, B3, B5)

Notes

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Matrix / Runout (Side A Variant 1 - Etched): AM SP 03730-A RE-I ES1 II
• Matrix / Runout (Side A Variant 2 - Etched): SPO-3730-A
• Matrix / Runout (Side A Variant 3 - Etched): SPO-3730-A T3 STERLING TJ IT
• Matrix / Runout (Side A Variant 4 - Etched): AMSP 03730-A RE-I ? RCA1
• Matrix / Runout (Side A Variant 5 - Etched): SP 03730-A-1D Columbia NY
• Matrix / Runout (Side A Variant 6 - Etched): AMSP03730-A''RE-1 ES2* ? MW3
• Matrix / Runout (Side B Variant 1 - Etched): AM SP 03730-B RE-I ES1 V
• Matrix / Runout (Side B Variant 2 - Etched): SPO-3730-B
• Matrix / Runout (Side B Variant 3 - Etched): SPO-3730-B T3 STERLING TJ IT
• Matrix / Runout (Side B Variant 4 - Etched): AM SP03730-B RE-I RCA1 ?
• Matrix / Runout (Side B Variant 5 - Etched): SPO-3730-B-CS-2 STERLING TJ IS
• Matrix / Runout (Side B Variant 6 - Etched): AM SP03730-B CRE-D ES2** llMW3