CAPTAIN BEEFHEART SAFE AS MILK RARE US PRESS on BUDDHA STUNNING NEAR MINT VINYL

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Captain Beefheart And His Magic Band - "Safe As Milk''

Disc Pressed in the USA, Jacket Printed in Canada

Label: Buddha

Catalog Number: BDS 69005

CONDITION OF THE ALBUM:

We visually grade the disc as Near Mint (NM).

It honest-to-God looks like it was never played. Just an unbelievably lustrous, mirror-like piece of wax! It could honestly pass for Mint, as we don't see a single thing wrong with it! However, we'll stick to Near Mint on the chance that we missed a stray, faint hairline (i.e. one you need a perfect viewing angle to see).

Housed in a poly-lined inner sleeve.

We grade the jacket as Near Mint (NM).

The jacket is also a stunner. We see just the faintest bit of toning in the white areas, but you really need to look closely to see it. It is actually still remarkably white in spite of it! The corners are all sharp and the seams wear-free!

The jacket will be placed in a plastic outer sleeve.

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Our grading system pretty much follows the Goldmine Magazine format, and is as follows:

Mint (M), Near Mint (NM), Excellent (EX), Very Good Plus (VG+), Very Good (VG), Good (G+), Good (G), Fair (F), and Poor (P).

Although thorough grade explanations are best left for specific item descriptions, we will endeavor to say that: M is pretty much left for the discs of sealed records (and SOMETIMES the jackets of sealed records); NM and EX are in the “Wow, what a beauty!/archive piece” range; VG+ and VG are in the “That’s pretty nice” range; G+ and G are in the “eh, it’s okay” range, and F and P are in the “trashed” range.

For test-plays, we use a Technics SL-QD3 turntable, with an Audio Technica AT-132EP cartridge and accompanying .4 x .7 mil elliptical diamond stylus tracking at 1.25g. While we strive to set our equipment to best reflect the performance of the average buyer's turntable, please understand that no two turntables track exactly alike. Thus, when we put up a disc for sale and provide a description of its playback performance, we are describing what we have observed on our equipment, we can't possibly predict how that disc will perform on all possible set-ups. Thus, if we were to say that an album skipped once during a test-play, there is a chance that it may skip, say, twice on a turntable observing considerably different technical specifications. At that rate, it may not even skip at all on a considerably different set-up. What we are essentially trying to say is that the purpose of our tests is to show buyers how a given disc performs on our equipment - which we feel performs nearly identically to the equipment owned by the average record collector - so as to help them get an idea of how it will perform on theirs, and that we make no guarantee of the same exact quality of playback on any set of equipment other than our own.

All records are shipped in genuine cardboard record mailers. The disc will be placed in a new liner and packaged outside the jacket (but within the plastic outer sleeve) so as to prevent splits. Original liners (if included) will be kept inside the jackets, as will any inserts. The album will be surrounded by three sheets of 12” by 12” bubble wrap (two sheets over the disc). Shipping info is always typed up and printed out – we don’t take chances with shoddy, hand-written addresses! The box will be sealed with and the address sheet will be affixed by lots of Scotch Heavy Duty Shipping Tape.

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Payment must be made within 48 hours of purchase/auction’s end.