Limited Edition 180 gram White Vinyl - 3000 Copies Only.
Single Album Sleeve With Poly-Lined Inner Sleeve With Cut Corners.
(Hype Sticker on Front and Barcode Sticker On Rear On Shrink Wrap - Not On Album Sleeve)
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Lee Wrecker 19th Dec 2021
| | Thanks ppint. No kneed to transmutilate yer corresponderings fuh me though. |
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ppint. 19th Dec 2021
| | i think you have the right of it, lady lee: where a small record company run by someone who has clearly escaped from - or perhaps into - or even very carefully, deliberately established - an asylsum for the musically insane, it is only reasonable for us here to respect their inspiration as best we can, whilst preserving the discographic usefulness of lpcat (etc.) to presumed innocent outsiders - and even lpcatters, where this presumption may well be on somewhat shakier ground - attempting to look up releases by particular artists (or even just browsing in the manner of collectors of windblown knittable fibre), by grouping variant releases of the same set of tracks as closely together as possible - so long as the record company doesn't make a clear, consistent and easily-observed distinction by awarding them different catalogue numbers or, in the post-catalogue numbers era, different bar-code numbers.
(- or, should you so prefer, ''i agree.'') |
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Lee Wrecker 19th Dec 2021
| | Thanks for chiming in Sir ppint. The specific album I refer to in my comment is from a small independent label in Australia called Flightless. The actual record is available in four other coloured vinyl variants with the same same cat#. These were only available online via the Flightless store and in small runs of a thousand to two thousand. None of these had a bar code at all so we could just (if any arrive) add them to the retail version I have uploaded and amend the notes to say "All coloured vinyl versions available from the Flightless online store have no bar code but the bar code for the retail version is 9332727109409". We would then need to remove the bar code from this entry and it would match the precedent set in the link I provided to the X-Ray Spex album. All I'm suggesting is that in that particular case we follow that lead and remove the bar code from the entry so as to avoid the ensuing calamity of assigning numbers to items that don't actually carry those numbers.
The case here is different though with two specific barcodes for two different products on a major label - so two entries. Small quirky independent label runs of multiple colours aimed at niche collectors are a different thing or are they not?
I have sent a correction to have the bar code removed forthwith and supplied an appropriate comment to the entry I made a few days ago. I hope this is to your satisfaction my liege.
Straight up though thanks for helping me nail the fine detail here ppint. Well not here but on my other entry ahh you know what I mean. |
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ppint. 18th Dec 2021
| | lee wrecker: when there are multiple colo(u)r variants with the same cat#, how does the musicorpse distinguish between and keep track of them: by some variation in the bar-code number - or does it appear that they don't bother to?
- if the musicorpse involved uses variations in the bar code number, then we can follow their lead;
- if the musicorpse involved warehouses and distributes them as being functionally identical, it'd seem like trying to be ''more royal than the king'' for us to assign the different colour variants different numbers they do not in fact bear - as well as liable to confuse the hell out of any and every one who isn't the person who invents the numbers... |
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Lee Wrecker 18th Dec 2021
| | You're most welcome russh29. Thanks for replying it made me look at what I'd said and realise that there were some minor errors which I have now corrected. That makes me happy! I'm easily pleased you know ... well sometimes. |
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russh29 17th Dec 2021
| | Thanx Lee Wrecker...I bought mine 2nd hand so it never had a bar code... |
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Lee Wrecker 17th Dec 2021
| | Hello Magic and russh29 the bar codes are different but like a lot of recent Rhino re-releases only visible on the cover sticker or shrink wrap as is the case on your copy Magic. So I presume you've lost or binned that sticker or bought a second hand copy russh29. No worries it is 081227971151 which is different to this version. You'll also note that russh29's copy is international and was released in the USA as well as the EU. The white version may be an EU only release but who can say? The
new mono version is available here in Australia now so who knows how far and wide the white vinyl version traveled.
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There are some albums that have multiple barcodes contained on one entry page on the site like this but the barcode category left blank and that information tagged on as more variants pour in. My preference in this case would be for separate entries to be created. I don't know why because the next entry I do I will suggest the opposite. I think if there are a lot of colour variants with the same cat# it's best to keep them together if there is a black and one coloured vinyl version only with different bar codes keep them separate.
We'll call this Wrecker's Wrule. What do you Wreckon Magic???!!!! |
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russh29 16th Dec 2021
| | Magic Marmalade…there is no barcode on my copy |
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Magic Marmalade 12th Dec 2021
| | How about the barcode russh? |
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russh29 12th Dec 2021
| | I have this with exact same catalogue number but regular black vinyl |
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Magic Marmalade 4th Feb 2017
| | Discogs entry for this states 2000 copies available for this, but it is actually 3000... I have the advert for it, and other accompanying titles released at the same time as limited coloured vinyls stating 3000 of each in Record Collector.
(The Doors L.A. Woman, And Blur, Parklife being others) |
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Magic Marmalade 20th Dec 2015
| | Well I'm sure I don't quite know how I came to be in possession of this your honour...
...I was out Christmos shopping, and lo... I found myself in the record shop seeking sanctuary from the crowds. It's all a bit hazy now, but I found myself in the vinyl section, and reasoned:
"Having bought crap for other people which will be unappreciated, I think I deserve a little treat... at least I'll have something I wanted for Crimbo this way!"
...And so it was.
I only realised when I got home it was the white vinyl, as a normous HMV sticker covered the info sticker at time of purchase. Little sceptical of coloured vinyls and their sound quality, but this is really very nice... thick shiny white stiff vinyl, and a beautiful crisp, clear sound across all frequencies (bit o'weight in the bottom too ((but haven't we all as time goes by!))).
...Oh, and did I mention it is mispressed with Sgt. Pepper?
(Nah, only kidding about that last part... I just wanted to start an untrue rumour to make everyone undo the shrink on theirs to find out - he he he ((Or am I????:):):) |
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