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Beatles mono shipping!!

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Congrats! :tresbon:

I ordered from Amazon since I am a Prime member and a portion of all my orders is donated to the local animal shelter (ordered through Amazon Smile). However they have NEVER delivered an album to me on the release day even though they claim that is what they are going to do. :sigh:

Hopefully I will be able to enjoy my mono versions along with everyone else instead of waiting many days for them to arrive.
 
I am getting it at my local record store, price is actually lower than Amazon and I get to support them?
 
Music Direct's daily email said that they were shipping so you could get your preorder on Tuesday. Nice.
 
rudyg said:
I am getting it at my local record store, price is actually lower than Amazon and I get to support them?
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Wish I had a local record store to support here in rural Vermont. The closest thing is a used record store 40 miles away. He does have some new vinyl, but he did not even know about these mono releases when I mentioned it to him about a week ago.
 
Can't wait! What to do? Play them in order of favorite or chronologically?


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My local store has a set for sale. 350.00

I have a pre-order at amazon, it's for 375, but I assume the price will drop. Most online stores have it for cheaper.
 
wgb113 said:
Can't wait! What to do? Play them in order of favorite or chronologically?


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I'll be playing them in the order I feel like at the time. I don't want to make it a study of how The Beatles changed over the years :no: I think I'll start with the White Album. There's lots of obvious mix differences on that one.
 
Are these supposed to be superior to the myriad of previous releases of the same material? I'm a bit out of the loop here. I do know that at least some of their early recordings were mono and ehnaced into stereo format. Or, am I wrong about that?
 
Lorenzo47 said:
Are these supposed to be superior to the myriad of previous releases of the same material? I'm a bit out of the loop here. I do know that at least some of their early recordings were mono and ehnaced into stereo format. Or, am I wrong about that?
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These are done all analog from the master tapes using the original engineering notes and first pressings to best match the originals as possible. The packaging is also done to replicate the original UK pressings so yes they are supposed to be superior. Yes the mono recordings were given more attention over the stereo versions when the Beatles first released these albums. The reviews have been very favorable so far.
 
spartanmanor said:
These are done all analog from the master tapes using the original engineering notes and first pressings to best match the originals as possible. The packaging is also done to replicate the original UK pressings so yes they are supposed to be superior. Yes the mono recordings were given more attention over the stereo versions when the Beatles first released these albums. The reviews have been very favorable so far.
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Thanks for the information. I still own some of the original releases that I bought back then (some over 50 years ago) but they are pretty well worn. Also have most all releases on CD but have never favored those.
 
This truly is exciting. This may have been discussed before, but will there be any opportunity to by single albums, or is it only going to be sold as a set?
 
jgannon said:
This truly is exciting. This may have been discussed before, but will there be any opportunity to by single albums, or is it only going to be sold as a set?
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I could not afford the entire set as much as I would have loved to. You can pre-order/order individual albums which is what I did.
 
aopisa said:
I could not afford the entire set as much as I would have loved to. You can pre-order/order individual albums which is what I did.
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Oh wow, great! May I ask you where, or are they available at individual everywhere?

EDIT: And a belated thank you to spartanmanor!
 
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jgannon said:
Oh wow, great! May I ask you where, or are they available at individual everywhere?
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I pre-ordered from Amazon.

FYI- They claim to ship them to arrive on the release date. So far the four times I ordered items (LPs and video games) to arrive on the release date they never did make it. I find Amazon shipping to be great except when it comes to this.
 
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