To your dear letter writer who shipped the wrong record around the world: I too have done this. Mixed up orders to Japan and Australia (from the US). Those customers were wonderful though and shipped each other the correct record. I did pay their postage of course.

FFS

Thank you Stephan 🙏

Wowsers

Yes, many many many...times...it's one side...often a nasty surprise when valuing and you flip over a shiny, beautiful record..only to be faced with a horror show.

I remember telling the story of the guy with a completely trashed collection....all gassed to fuck. I thought he was going to cry when I told him they were worthless. Some amazing titles too 🤦‍♂️

I'll have to check back, but I'm pretty sure we covered this..........but might be worth revisiting if HMV are punting those sleeves.

It's the new normal. Everyone's at it. Madonna and Warner.....Depeche and Sony. Exclusives direct to consumer, with the odd bone thrown to retail.

Hahaha....that amazing

Some great stuff on Bandwagonesque!

Scheduling and travel @justplayed.bsky.social will be back next episode. Don't worry.

Those 'counterfeit' records seem to all be of recordings 50 or more years old, which makes me assume that they're pressed in some territory where copyright on recordings is just 50 years, and so are valid there. Similar to the knock off recordings we get in the UK of material issued before 1963.