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How to tell a Columbia House pressing from a store copy
Columbia House and RCA club records look right from across the room. Here’s what the label, dead wax, and jacket stock actually tell you up close.
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Someone else’s name on the back cover
A price sticker from a dead record store, a ballpoint name, a ticket stub inside the sleeve: why the marked-up copy sometimes beats the clean one.
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Why the torn half of the ticket beats the whole one
Why a torn 1983 Aragon stub beats a mint one: the tear, stamp, and fold are proof you were actually there.