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Daydream Nation: the double LP that earns the walk
Sonic Youth's 1988 double LP makes you get up four times a side, and that's exactly why it never wears out.
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Let It Be: the Replacements record that never picks a lane
The Replacements' Let It Be, 1984: the one record from the era that never makes you choose between the joke and the wound. A desert island pick.
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Reading dead wax: the three-second first-pressing check
Dead wax under a lamp beats the sleeve every time. How to read matrix etchings, stamper suffixes, and catch a reissue posing as first pressing.