Side 1: Cheatin' Man; Solid Rock; Razor's Edge; Scenes; Stand Yr'
Ground.
Side 2: Borderline; On the Platform; Four Weeks Gone; Factory Man;
Children of the Southern Land.
Cover is in excellent condition except for a little bit of white fade marks
up toward the upper mid area on front cover. Side seam and corners are in
great shape. No tears or wrinkles or bends on the open right side
seam. Back cover is perfect. Some ringwear but you don't see it
unless you put it under a lamp, because the light ringwear is not
colored. Inner sleeve has the lyrics. Gray Atco label is great.
Vinyl sounded great when I played it on my Technics turntable. No skips or pops. I do see about 7 light
surface scuffs under that bright lamp. Also a couple of light surface
scratches, but unfeelable. It did not affect the sound performance at
all. Same with Side 2... no obvious surface scratches, but a few scuffs,
but they are super light and under a bright lamp they show up. The only thing I did hear was a few light crackles in the beginning of the first song. It disappears eventually.
I rate the cover sleeve as Excellent (EX) because of the few fade marks and
good corners. The Vinyl gets an EXCELLENT (EX), too, since the surface
scuffs do not cause any changes to the great sound quality. (Maybe I should grade the physical look of the LP as Very Good Plus (VG+) due to light scratches, but still the sound quality is EX.)
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Guidelines I use to rate the quality of these records (based on the Goldmine Grading Guide):
NM:Near Mint
- Vinyl, still shiny, as if opened for the first time. No writing or
stickers on the vinyl. No obvious scratches. Label: No writing or
stickers and no fading of the label.
NM-: Near Mint Minus
- Similar to NM but will have some very light scratches on the vinyl
not affecting the sound quality. No writing or stickers on label and no
fading (or ringwear) on cover or label.
EX: Excellent -
Not quite a Goldmine Standard Listing, but being used by many now.
Cover: No ink wear, minor creases to corners, no seam tears. Vinyl can
have scratches, but not felt by your fingers. Sound quality must be
mint. No more than 15% of the surface should have wear or scuffs on it.
To me, EX is like a VG++.
VG+: Very Good Plus
- Similar to NM- except that on the label, there may be a sticker or
writing, but it shows very little wear. There may be only a couple light
surface scratches on the grooves, but do not affect the playback with
noise or skips. You may only see these scratches if you put them under a
bright light and really look for them. The cover might have light
creasing or minor seam or corner wear, but still in great condition to
show off.
VG to VG-: Very Good to Very Good Minus
- May not be that shiny anymore and you will see scratches without
putting it under a bright light, but they still would not affect the
quality of the playback. The sound quality is still pretty good, maybe a
little noise, but not enough to detract from the listening experience.
The label might have some fading around it, besides having stickers or
writing. The cover may have obvious ringwear in the middle or around the
perimeter of where the record was, maybe some side seam splits, or
little tears at the top or side where the record goes back into. If less
defects, then it's a VG. If it has all this just mentioned, then a VG-.
G, G+: Good or Good Plus
- It doesn't mean the vinyl is trashed. It plays though without
skipping, but may have heavy noise or fuzz sound because of age,
quality, or worn-down grooves. Heavy writing or stickers on the label,
ringwear is very obvious on label and cover probably has seam splits.
But, amazingly, if you have special audio LP recording software, you
could probably clean up those crackles and fuzzes, if you want to create
a CD of it for yourself.
P: Poor
- This is when the vinyl is warped to the point it warps the playback
also. Or it's cracked, but it may or may not still play without a skip.
If a picture sleeve is with it, this is torn or marked up bigtime. But
someone may want to have it for nostalgia or even attempt to fix it.