To find a for Stereo phonographs Today Lp Capitol Record Club is incredible. if this was a Beatles copy it would rival the first state stereo Butcher cover in value. I knew as soon as i came across a Summer Days for Stereo phonographs that a Today issue would exist.
I;ve managed to clean it up digitally as best as i can. there's no transforming this cover, the print gets too blurry. this is the best it can get without compromising it. you can see the diagonal black stripes and you can see the for stereo phonographs clearly enough, but the DT 8 2269 was blurred by the camera lighting i guess. anyway it's been years since I've been this excited about finding a rare BB item. Of course all you guys who are into the Beatles will no doubt just go Ho hum . IT feels like a waste of time but i'm sharing it anyway.
This Capitol Record Club issue of today comes from a worn out colour photocopy from the 90s. It's folded down the middle and creased. The album cover is worn and tattered. I used the white border part of the album where it's designated as Record Club. And I digitally bleached it from a yellowish brown to a white and touched it up digitally to make it look presentable. The black stripes and Capitol Record Club numbers all come from the photocopy. What I did do was paste a nice today mono cover that I own to make it look mint. The Record Club album cover was too worn out to use besides I can't get the folded crease out of the photo / it would be way too much work. The cover is identical only better quality.. I've seen one other copy on Ebay years ago and it too was a mono cover but the photo was blurry. I don't know if all the Record Club issues of today used only a mono cover but you would think Capitol used a few Duophonic covers but then who knows. Unless there's someone who has one.
The DT 8-2269 was painstakingly cleaned of all yellowish brown residue without messing up the numbers. I assure you this was not an easy chore.
And I'm not shouting, my eyes are very tired and I can't see the small print properly when that happens. It's called getting old.
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