Artist: Blue Phantom
Album Title: Distortions
Format: LP
Label: Kaleidoscope
Country and Date of Release: U.K., 1972
Cover/Record Grade: F /VG but see Other Info, below
Other Info: Awesome psych album with some monster fuzz sections. Had to give the cover a lower grade largely due to the spots on the back cover. The front cover is laminated. The record has lots of light scratches, but remember that I grade records by how they play, not how they look. So, while the record isn t completely noise-free, it does play very good, with only a bit of surface noise ticks in between tracks, mainly.
Payment and Shipping Information
In the U.S., shipping/handling is 4.98 for one LP sent by Media Mail but if this listing is for more than one LP, click on the Shipping and Payments tab above for the correct price . Package insured upon request. Yes, I do combine shipping so if you purchase more than one item, you WILL save on postage I do not gouge on postage and packaging costs. I send your records to you carefully packaged in a strong, OVERSIZED LP mailer to avoid damage to the LP cover with sturdy cardboard squares to protect the record and the cover , but I make sure to only charge the amount needed to cover my actual costs. If you have any questions about this item, feel free to contact me.
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Grading Information
With very few exceptions, I play grade the records that I list. This means that I don t go by the way a record looks, only by how it plays. Sometimes when I have a group or a lot of LPs within a single listing, I will not play all the records, but this is fairly rare.
I use Mint M , Excellent Ex , Very Good VG , Good G , Fair F , and heaven help us Poor P , and I take each of these words at their literal meaning. In other words, if I assign an LP a grade of G, that means to me that it really is in good playing condition, not fair or worse for many dealers, a G or even VG grade is often really nothing more than a euphemism for a record that is in fair or poor condition.
I also use up to three plus signs and up to three minus signs - to indicate varying degrees within a specific grade. So, a grade letter followed by a means the condition is slightly better than the grade letter by itself, and a grade letter followed by indicates that the condition is yet another small step higher. For example, a grade of Ex means that the record is very close to being in the Mint range, but still just shy of it.
This may seem like a strange system at first glance but I use it because I feel that the standard grading systems are inadequate, as they simply don t allow for enough grades or degrees within those grades. Many don t use Excellent, for example, which means that there is a jump from Mint down to Very Good and there are a whole lot of grading possibilities in between those two, the way I see it.
