Immerse Your Soul In Love - The Radiohead Thread

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Mather said:
Yes but it was repressed last year or in 2020, I don't think it's possible they could still be using Parlophone jackets in 2021 no? Would these not be pretty standard by now?
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ah, so there’s a difference between the 2016 and 2020 XL pressings? I haven’t looked too much into that. I purchased my XL copy in 2017 and there were two different sleeves/vinyl versions floating around Amazon at that point and apparently you could get a Parlophone sleeve with XL wax and vice versa at the time. But if you can differentiate the 2020 from the 2016 then you you likely wouldn’t have to worry about it.
 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
Ah

ah, so there’s a difference between the 2016 and 2020 XL pressings? I haven’t looked too much into that. I purchased my XL copy in 2017 and there were two different sleeves/vinyl versions floating around Amazon at that point and apparently you could get a Parlophone sleeve with XL wax and vice versa at the time. But if you can differentiate the 2020 from the 2016 then you you likely wouldn’t have to worry about it.
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Oh man I mean I have no idea, maybe maybe not. I just hoped it was possible to distinguish between the UK and NA from the jacket on the new pressings...
 
Mather said:
Oh man I mean I have no idea, maybe maybe not. I just hoped it was possible to distinguish between the UK and NA from the jacket on the new pressings...
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Gotcha, sorry my bad. I looked up the thread on Reddit and I got my details a bit wrong. It was listed as a Capitol pressing and XL on the sleeve in the photo but people replied that they had ordered a copy and received a Capitol sleeve with a Parlophone LP inside. Anyways I got an XL/XL US copy for $16.99 . Those were the days.
 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
Gotcha, sorry my bad. I looked up the thread on Reddit and I got my details a bit wrong. It was listed as a Capitol pressing and XL on the sleeve in the photo but people replied that they had ordered a copy and received a Capitol sleeve with a Parlophone LP inside. Anyways I got an XL/XL US copy for $16.99 . Those were the days.
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And what does it say under the barcode on the jacket? Printed in NA?
 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
Yeah my 2016 pressing appears to be a GZ pressing.
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Honestly I don't even know why I'm bothering. Like I have 2 good Radiohead presses, In Rainbows box and OKNOTOK UK. The rest all suck. I should just accept that Radiohead doesn't give a fuck about their pressings and just stream them instead. But they don't have high res streams which again, why the fuck not?!? Of all the band's, these are the guys that should!

I'm going back to bed.
 
Mather said:
Honestly I don't even know why I'm bothering. Like I have 2 good Radiohead presses, In Rainbows box and OKNOTOK UK. The rest all suck. I should just accept that Radiohead doesn't give a fuck about their pressings and just stream them instead. But they don't have high res streams which again, why the fuck not?!? Of all the band's, these are the guys that should!

I'm going back to bed.
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FWIW, The Bends XL pressing I own is closer to the In Rainbows diskbox and OKNOTOK UK Blue than it is to A Moon Shaped Pool or Capitol Kid A 10”. Obviously my setup isn’t Audiophile but my demarcation usually falls on whether I can listen to the LP without being annoyed and I can listen to my copy of The Bends without being annoyed and I just spun it last week. If you can find a cheap copy it would be worth taking a flyer on, I wouldn’t spend a ton on it though.
 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
FWIW, The Bends XL pressing I own is closer to the In Rainbows diskbox and OKNOTOK UK Blue than it is to A Moon Shaped Pool or Capitol Kid A 10”. Obviously my setup isn’t Audiophile but my demarcation usually falls on whether I can listen to the LP without being annoyed and I can listen to my copy of The Bends without being annoyed and I just spun it last week. If you can find a cheap copy it would be worth taking a flyer on, I wouldn’t spend a ton on it though.
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That's good to know. I'm happy getting whatever the newest repress is for The Bends and HTTT. Those are the last two I need. I may do the same for Kid A if they happen to repress it. Because these copies I have of it just aren't good enough. If they fix the Kid Amensia pressing I'd happily get that but as it is there's no point. My cart will absolutely hear that distortion.
 
it looks like I have the 2016 NA press with the little phrases etched in the runout. It says “made in NA” on the perimeter text on the labels and also by the bar code on the back. Discogs says it’s an optimal press. It’s not bad, but sometimes the electric guitar specifically sounds pretty thin.
 
Matt M said:
So for those that got the scarry book, is every corner on the top bent like mine? The bottom corner is crisp. Every record sleeve in the book has seam splits, and the extras all have the same corner dings as the book.

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Mine just came in. Same bent in the top left corner. It's not too awful but seems the shipping box wasn't tight enough. They also tossed 3 sleeves on top and those also got dings in the top corner.
 
mdmost said:
Mine just came in. Same bent in the top left corner. It's not too awful but seems the shipping box wasn't tight enough. They also tossed 3 sleeves on top and those also got dings in the top corner.
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I've contacted them and sent pictures. Probably wouldn't bother me so much on a $15-20 record, but the point of this extra cost is a beautiful book. Luckily, I will say the records sound great.
 
Matt M said:
I've contacted them and sent pictures. Probably wouldn't bother me so much on a $15-20 record, but the point of this extra cost is a beautiful book. Luckily, I will say the records sound great.
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Did you manage to avoid the distortion of How To Disappear Completely? The strings and vocals distort really bad on my copy!

If you do I’m more hopeful of a good copy from the repress then because I know you have a nice system that’s not a million miles removed from my own!
 
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