I got up very early this morning to get to my fav record store before it opens. I was there 20 minutes early, at 7:40. And I was no. 8 in the row.
In times, when nearly everything can be found online and one record shop after another closes, it was such a good feeling to be there with all those freaks like me...
But to get a bit back an topic: does anybody know how limited the Bowiesingles are?
I think TSAOT/WAWN is limited to 5.000, but what about 1965?
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Zig
Posted: 20th Apr 2013, 10:31 am
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I have no idea how limited they are, but at Bengans in Gothenburg (Sweden) they had about 30 of each...
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Posted: 20th Apr 2013, 12:36 pm
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Hmmmm... I've seen the single TSAOT with 2 different labels on ebay. What's that about? US and UK? Or is the RCA one a pirate?
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Posted: 20th Apr 2013, 1:41 pm
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Got to rockaboom in leicester at 6.30 to find queue of at least 30 ,and guess what the guy in front got the last copy of The Stars/WAWN doh! The owner said he'd had 20 copies and was surprised how quickly they'd gone . Oh we'll , ebay again I guess....
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Posted: 20th Apr 2013, 1:54 pm
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Zig: that orange label is the UK issue, the other the EU issue.
Barcodes: UK: 8 88837 05557 4 EU: 8 88837 04917 7
If anyone has a spare UK copy I'll gladly trade for a EU copy (or something else!)
Stars/WAWN UK 7" 45 creates fourth RSD collectable
“You got me spinning, baby, spinning in a trance”
The collectors among you who concern yourselves with such minutia as label variations will be either delighted (or distressed) to learn that the white vinyl, picture sleeve 45 of The Stars (Are Out Tonight)/Where Are We Now?, was issued for Record Store Day today as two different pressings with different catalogue numbers.
Though both were made in the EU, there is a major label difference between the UK and international variations of the pressing.
The UK version comes with an orange RCA label for Where Are We Now?, while the international version has a predominantly black label with white text.
Otherwise the label design for The Stars (Are Out Tonight) and the cover design for both pressings is identical in every respect, barring the catalogue number and barcode variations.
Catalogue numbers:
UK: 88883705557
International: 88883704917
It seems the international pressing was distributed with a shrink-wrapped cover as was the Bowie 1965! Four track EP.
Pictured here are the variations (UK on the left) and if you click through to the other images you can see both sides of all of today's Bowie 45s.
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Both the regular album versions. The orange RCA label is a nice touch though.
I went to Record Collector in Sheffield for RSD. I was there just before 7am, the shop opened at 8am and I finally got in there at 10.30. It was a large and slow moving queue, not helped by there only being one person serving behind the counter. The first person had started queuing at 11pm on Friday. I managed to get Stars and DIS, but the 1965 EP was the first thing to sell out, so I didn't get that one.
I've just paid a visit to the participating stores in Manchester (Piccadilly Records and Clampdown) to see what stock they had left and it was a similar situation there. Both said that the three Bowie singles were among the first to sell out, with the 1965 EP selling the fastest.
One of the other things I picked up was the Velvet Underground 'Scepter Studio Sessions', a replica of an acetate from April 1966. Very interesting versions of Venus In Furs and WFTM and I'm wondering if this was the acetate Bowie had, not the first album, as those two songs are more similar to Bowie's 1967 versions. Anyone know more about the Scepter sessions?
