Jeff Wong
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I thought I'd amuse you with some of my collector nuttiness with a pic of various pressings of Elvis Costello's 1st album from my record collection.
In the top row, you'll see a UK Stiff test pressing (well there are actually two there)... an original pressing from the first 1000 copies with fully laminated sleeve (again, there's actually another there) with the original flyer that could be filled out in 25 words or less why you liked Elvis so that a friend could receive a free copy of the album from Stiff to help hype Elvis... an unlaminated version of the yellow backed cover, which is part of the set of all eleven of the different coloured backs of the original Island pressing of the UK LP with the B&W photo on the front before the graphic was posterised (it took me 25 years to get all of the colours - I got the cheese yellow and pale aqua blue only just last year. I knew it would be tough to track down all of them, but, not 25 years hard.)
Below, you'll see American & Canadian pressings, some German ones with different coloured lettering, a couple New Zealand pressings, at least three different Australian ones, some French & Belgian, Israeli, Greek, Portuguese, and a Japanese promo on see-through brown virgin vinyl (which sounds exquisite!)
In the top row, you'll see a UK Stiff test pressing (well there are actually two there)... an original pressing from the first 1000 copies with fully laminated sleeve (again, there's actually another there) with the original flyer that could be filled out in 25 words or less why you liked Elvis so that a friend could receive a free copy of the album from Stiff to help hype Elvis... an unlaminated version of the yellow backed cover, which is part of the set of all eleven of the different coloured backs of the original Island pressing of the UK LP with the B&W photo on the front before the graphic was posterised (it took me 25 years to get all of the colours - I got the cheese yellow and pale aqua blue only just last year. I knew it would be tough to track down all of them, but, not 25 years hard.)
Below, you'll see American & Canadian pressings, some German ones with different coloured lettering, a couple New Zealand pressings, at least three different Australian ones, some French & Belgian, Israeli, Greek, Portuguese, and a Japanese promo on see-through brown virgin vinyl (which sounds exquisite!)
