JOY DIVISION Closer LP FACT XXV VFACT ORIG OLD BLUE? VG++ 1980 UK

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FOR SALE IS A HARD TO FIND UK IMPORT WITH THE OLD BLUE? ETHCED IN THE WAX. THE VINYL IS A NICE VG++ OR BETTER. ONLY REAL FLAWS ARE SOME LIGHT MARKS AND SOME STREAKING FROM RUBBING UP AGAINST THE INNER SLEEVE. REALLY NICE COPY. COVER AND INSERT ARE A VERY VERY HGH VG+. JUST SOME LIGHT HANDLING AND RINGWEAR. LABELS ARE MINT. S-61347 73394-1-A1

Joy Division ?– Closer

Label: Factory ?– FACT. 25, Factory ?– FACT?XXV Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: UK Released: Jul 1980 Genre: Rock Style: Post-Punk, New Wave

Tracklist

A1 Atrocity Exhibition A2 Isolation A3 Passover A4 Colony A5 A Means To An End B1 Heart And Soul B2 Twenty Four Hours B3 The Eternal B4 Decades

Companies etc

Record Company – Factory Records (5)
Published By – Fractured Music
Produced At – Britannia Row Studios
Printed By – Garrod & Lofthouse

Credits

Design – Martyn Atkins, Peter Saville (2)
Engineer – John Caffery*, Martin Hannett
Engineer [Assistant] – Michael Johnson
Photography By – Bernard Pierre Wolff
Producer – Martin Hannett

Notes

Produced at Brittania Row.
A Fractured Music
A Factory Record
Labels: 9/5/80
A Factory Records Product
Published by Fractured Music
Printed by Garrod And Lofthouse Limited

FACT 25 comes in two vinyl editions: Black and dark translucent red. It can only be differentiated when holding against a strong light source.
Apparently, this is due to Martin Hannett, who ordered a second master cut after he found out that 5000 records were pressed without the initial master having been approved.

There also are two sleeve variations:
A plain carton cover with glossy inner sleeve and having straight corners. Or a thick rough cardboard cover with rough inner sleeve and having rounded corners.

However, the two vinyl editions can come in either cover.

A distinction regarding the lacquer cutting (of the black vinyl) is the groove width, which is as wide as possible. For example, the United States FACTUS pressing has an A-side runout of nearly 1 1/2 inches across while it's less than 1/2" on this cutting. [This adds to the sound quality on an audiophile rig.].