THE BEATLES - Rubber Soul

Item Description

Vinyl, , 1988 purple label
LP Album Reissue Stereo

Capitol - 1988 purple label re-issue. The difference between this purple label and one one from the late 70s is the Capitol logo is much smaller, and of course the new catalog #.

Capitol re-issued most of their US Beatles 1960s releases in 1988 with new catalog #s and barcodes for the first time. As of this note (Dec 2015), this is the last vinyl pressing of the original US Capitol releases.

Even though it has a new catalog # and matrix stamp, you can still see the old matrix stamp SW-1/2-2442 scratched out in the run-outs. These are pressed at Specialty Record Corporation, identified in the matrix with a large S surrounding R and C stamped in the run-out.