Bonnie Raitt Nine Lives (Allied, Quiex, Shrink, Inner)
1986 FIRST pressing on translucent QUIEX virgin vinyl complete with original printed inner sleeve and cover in original shrink-wrap. Pressed at Allied Record Company and mastered at The Mastering Lab (Q stamp and TML-X in dead wax run-outs).
Vinyl has a few light surface sleeve scuffs/hazing just holding grade back, nothing I can feel though. Labels have light wear/spindle marks. Printed inner sleeve has cornerwear/edgewear, a creased bottom corners, and splitting at the bottom/side edge seams. Cover in original shrink-wrap has cornerwear/edgewear, dinged top and bottom right corners, bottom left corner poking through shrink, shrink split at top and bottom right corners, and a small price sticker upper right corner of front cover on shrink.
If you’re not familiar with Quiex, it's like this: As CDs began coming on the scene in the 1980s, record companies started pressing Quiex II lps for primarily for radio stations. The idea was to show that vinyl was still king and sounded as good--or better--than CDs. MOST Quiex pressings were marked as Quiex that were shipped to radio. But if too many were pressed, they were packaged as regular LPs and those lucky enough to unknowingly buy them were then blessed with clearer sound! This translucent brown Audiophile beauty IS one of those pressings.
Genre: Blues
Condition: Strong VG+
Cover Condition: Strong VG+Label: Warner Bros. Records
Reference Number: 9 25486-1
Date: 1986
Country: US
SKU: 18774
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