This album, that has been bootlegged several times, also is available on iTunes. It sounds like a needledrop to me, which means this is a way to pick up the original version of Supermen, not the Ryko remix. Quite possibly though, someone with a mint copy of the original album can improve on the sound quality!

http://itunes.apple.com/nl/album/glasto ... d331698013

It's also available on eMusic (VBR mp3):

http://www.emusic.com/album/Various-Gla ... 29696.html

And play.com (320kbps mp3):

http://www.play.com/Music/MP3-Download- ... oduct.html

Definitely a needle drop, and a slight improvement on the pirate CD I picked up of this album in the 1990s.

Thanks for the info!

It's released on Arkama Records, an italian record label which specialises in reissues (of dubious leagality it would seem) of mainly late 60s/early 70s prog. Here's the review from eMusic:

In 1972, the organizers of the Glastonbury Fayre released an amazingly lavish, triple album set to raise funds for the fair. Only 5,000 copies were pressed up, and although bootlegged version have appeared over the years, the rare originals invariably traded for sizeable sums.

Rarity begot misconceptions, not least being that the set was recorded live at Glastonbury itself. Some of it was indeed, including Mighty Baby, both Pink Fairies tracks, the Edgar Broughton Band and Daevid Allen and Gong. Others were indeed recorded live -- like the Grateful Dead's side-long "Dark Star...Bury" extravaganza, and the original, unmixed version of Hawkwind's "Silver Machine" (barely recognizable here as the hit that would soon devour the planet) -- but on other stages: the Dead were captured at Wembley Stadium earlier that year, and Hawkwind at the Roundhouse.

Marc Bolan and Pete Townshend handed over more personal offerings, a song each recorded at their respective homes, while other artists delivered unreleased studio recordings. All told, it was a stunning set, and priced at a snip under four pounds, an astounding bargain.

The Akarma label has lovingly remastered the albums for CD release, reproducing both the original artwork and the sumptuous, 32-page booklet, which attempted to convey in words and photos the feel, excitement and joie de vivre of the festival in its infancy. You won't get the poster, cut-out pyramid, and geodesic dome, though, but you do get a DVD of Glastonbury Fayre -- The Movie, Peter Neal's 87-minute, rarely shown documentary of the 1971 festival. Intense interest in the film can be explained only by it being rarely seen, for David Bowie's non-appearance, its mediocre camera work (surprisingly courtesy of Nicolas Roeg), and dodgy sound does not a great movie make. Still there's lots of gratuitous mud bathing, a soul-ripping number from Family, a riveting one from Quintessence, and a storming performance from Traffic.

Now this long sought-after set and desperately scoured-for film are legitimately available, so fans can finally see and hear it all as it was meant to be. The past brought vividly back to life. [Arkama also released a three-LP re-creation of the original limited-edition LP in 2006.]

Resurrecting an old thread here.
I've downloaded countless versions of the original Glastonbury version of this track, as opposed to the alternate Ryko version.

They all have an odd scratching on them when the acoustic is strummed that is absent on the Ryko edit.
Does anyone have the original lp and if so, is it on that?

There is actually one digital version available that seems to be a third mix that has the scratching at the beginning but very faint and then it (mostly) goes.

This version also has a sharp drop off in the volume of the vocal during the first chorus "strange games" line. It's also missing the opening strum and has a very different looking waveform. It's also shorter but plays at the same pitch.

It has a lot more dynamic range too, the drums are nice and punchy, as evidenced in this image which shows how the fade out is relatively quiet on this version as opposed to the iTunes version on top.