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All Tomorrow's Parties single w/picture sleeve sells for $30k; sets discogs record for a 7"

https://www.discogs.com/digs/collecting ... n-discogs/

I see that 90's Record Collector article is still being quoted verbatim every time this sleeve gets mentioned anywhere.

Sod it, couldn't resist and have just ordered this from hhv.de - just under £100 posted, which isn't *that* bad considering it's 8 LPs and the CD boxes go for most of that these days.
Pressing quality gets a thumbs-up from the hard-to-please Hoffman forum too..

(I seem to have in my mind that there was a 1969 UK reissue but I can't remember why I think that) I've got what I believe to be a '69 UK copy - it's this: https://www.discogs.com/release/9782162 Basically identical to the 1st edition, but without the "Sold in the UK subject to resale price ...

*remove dupe post*

Re. the "300 owners" - it's worth noting that this variant was set as the "key release" version for a year or so, so will have been the first in the list of 200+ variants. I imagine it picked up most of those "owners" during this time.

There are lies, damned lies & discogs ownership statistics.
Rest assured that 300 people do not own a copy of this (it would be much better documented than it is if that were the case) and that it has not sold for $50 (almost certainly a mis-listed copy from a lazy seller).

Lifted straight from Olivier, no?

http://olivier.landemaine.free.fr/vu/li ... f6566.html

It was me who provided that info to Olivier, but I got it from a UK dealer who was selling a copy on ebay. I asked him how he "knew" how many had been pressed and he reminded me that these were pressed by EMI. EMI used each "stamper" to press 250 - 300 LPs before replacing it. Each "stamper" was ...

He's got to be on here, right?