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  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,686
    Lost In Ohio wrote:
    PJ_Soul wrote:
    Lost In Ohio wrote:
    It did NOT say "SONY LEGACY"

    It did say "Copyright 1993"
    It did NOT say 'Copyright 1993, 2011"

    It was NOT an orange sticker in the middle of the vinyl.

    The lady said it was an original, but I'm not taking her word entirely 100% seriously.


    Read thread for more info.
    Sorry - Epic Z 53136. If it says that, then original US pressing for sure. If that woman knows it's original and is selling it for that price she needs to get out of the record business. :lol:


    On the contrary. She needs to sell me a Benny and 1991 single for $75 USD. :lol:
    :lol: Yeah, no shit! Maybe you can find the PJ20 coloured vinyl there for a bargain too! ... See if they have 2, wouldya? ;)
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  • Lost In Ohio
    Lost In Ohio Posts: 7,255
    PJ_Soul wrote:
    :lol: Yeah, no shit! Maybe you can find the PJ20 coloured vinyl there for a bargain too! ... See if they have 2, wouldya? ;)

    Unfortunately, all they had left was

    Sealed Live on Ten Legs
    --I already had the box set with record, CD, backstage pass replica, etc.

    Sealed Versus Remaster (as I used it to compare to my ORIGINAL Versus, bwahahahahahaha)
    Sealed Vitalogy Remaster
    --I already have that super deluxe box set.
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  • MedozK
    MedozK Tennessee Posts: 9,212
    javis el errante wrote:
    check the label, if it's black, it's first pressing, if it's orange, it's reissue, if the vinyl comes inside a white jacket, it's the reissue... some first pressings have a black sticker stating Pearl Jam ONLY, and some Pearl Jam is printed on orange...
    Original
    photo1-1.jpg

    Reissue
    photo2-2.jpg

    Pretty easy to tell apart
  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,686
    Lost In Ohio wrote:
    PJ_Soul wrote:
    Lost In Ohio wrote:
    It did NOT say "SONY LEGACY"

    It did say "Copyright 1993"
    It did NOT say 'Copyright 1993, 2011"

    It was NOT an orange sticker in the middle of the vinyl.

    The lady said it was an original, but I'm not taking her word entirely 100% seriously.


    Read thread for more info.
    Sorry - Epic Z 53136. If it says that, then original US pressing for sure. If that woman knows it's original and is selling it for that price she needs to get out of the record business. :lol:


    On the contrary. She needs to sell me a Benny and 1991 single for $75 USD. :lol:


    Yes. I can 100% CONFIRM "EPIC Z 536136" at the top of the spine.
    :shock: Then you've got yourself a first pressing for $25 - congrats! I can't believe it. I hope something like that happens to me someday!
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  • Lost In Ohio
    Lost In Ohio Posts: 7,255
    PJ_Soul wrote:
    :shock: Then you've got yourself a first pressing for $25 - congrats! I can't believe it. I hope something like that happens to me someday!

    Yup. :shock: indeed.

    :shock: times thirty, at least!

    I totally, totally, stopped in on a 100% whim. I knew that any EV 7'" they MIGHT have got were long, long, long gone. (I don't think they got any at all, to be honest.) And actually, I don't think they have any 7" at all.

    I was at the intersection to go park on the side street, and I was like "WTF? I'm not doing anything at all...hours and hours of free time ahead of me, I might as well. If anything, it's just fun to flip through the records and window shop."

    I saw the opened Versus, I was like "Huh? That's odd." I saw it didn't have the "REMASTER" sticker on it and I was like "Ok...maybe it's already been played."

    I opened it and looked at the vinyl, saw the half black, half white, and I was like... "wait.. I think mine is orange." Ok...this is...weird...good...wtf is this? MUST POST ON FORUM!!! AAHHHHH!!!!!



    If I'm not mistaken, I think it's like $75 to $80 on ebay? NOT FLIPPING, JUST CURIOUS.
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  • MedozK
    MedozK Tennessee Posts: 9,212
    Lost In Ohio wrote:
    PJ_Soul wrote:
    :shock: Then you've got yourself a first pressing for $25 - congrats! I can't believe it. I hope something like that happens to me someday!

    If I'm not mistaken, I think it's like $75 to $80 on ebay? NOT FLIPPING, JUST CURIOUS.
    Thats high for an open copy..sealed ones around that price point is better. The reissues really lowered the price of originals that are open..Sealed ones retain their collectability value much better. IMO
  • Lost In Ohio
    Lost In Ohio Posts: 7,255
    MedozK wrote:
    Lost In Ohio wrote:
    PJ_Soul wrote:
    :shock: Then you've got yourself a first pressing for $25 - congrats! I can't believe it. I hope something like that happens to me someday!

    If I'm not mistaken, I think it's like $75 to $80 on ebay? NOT FLIPPING, JUST CURIOUS.
    Thats high for an open copy..sealed ones around that price point is better. The reissues really lowered the price of originals that are open..Sealed ones retain their collectability value much better. IMO


    Assuming $25 (or so) or a sealed reissue... $75 (or so) for a sealed original... still, not a bad find at all. :D

    $45-$50 maybe. Basically, a half-off deal at worst??
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  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,686
    edited April 2012
    MedozK wrote:
    Lost In Ohio wrote:
    PJ_Soul wrote:
    :shock: Then you've got yourself a first pressing for $25 - congrats! I can't believe it. I hope something like that happens to me someday!

    If I'm not mistaken, I think it's like $75 to $80 on ebay? NOT FLIPPING, JUST CURIOUS.
    Thats high for an open copy..sealed ones around that price point is better. The reissues really lowered the price of originals that are open..Sealed ones retain their collectability value much better. IMO
    That's true actually... the reissues made them way cheaper recently ( ... For some reason. Because the reissue certainly didn't make a sealed Vitalogy first pressing that much cheaper, so that's weird... Now when are Binaural, Riot Act, Yield, and Avocado being reissued?? I still need those and cannot afford them ($300 for Riot Act!!). :) But anyway, $25 for a first pressing is amazing!! And it will really gain value, if you care, unlike the reissues.
    Post edited by PJ_Soul on
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  • MedozK
    MedozK Tennessee Posts: 9,212
    Lost In Ohio wrote:

    Assuming $25 (or so) or a sealed reissue... $75 (or so) for a sealed original... still, not a bad find at all. :D

    $45-$50 maybe. Basically, a half-off deal at worst??
    I totally agree..great find
  • Lost In Ohio
    Lost In Ohio Posts: 7,255
    javis el errante wrote:
    check the label, if it's black, it's first pressing, if it's orange, it's reissue, if the vinyl comes inside a white jacket, it's the reissue... some first pressings have a black sticker stating Pearl Jam ONLY, and some Pearl Jam is printed on orange...

    Black sticker, eh?

    Anyone have a photo?
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  • Zod
    Zod Posts: 10,906
    how many pressings were there?

    Just the original and then last years reissue? I had no idea that older verion(s) had become rare and hard to find?
  • Lost In Ohio
    Lost In Ohio Posts: 7,255
    Zod wrote:
    how many pressings were there?

    Just the original and then last years reissue? I had no idea that older verion(s) had become rare and hard to find?

    Original pressing (for details and photos look through this thread)

    Reissue
    1) Super Deluxe Box Set (Includes records of Versus and Vitalogy, the concert vinyl and CD, as well as a link to download missing tracks off CD...I think. It's been a while since I've looked in the box.)
    2) Versus re-issue (has sticker on shrink wrap announcing "REISSUE." It's hard to miss the sticker.)

    The second one appears to be a stand-alone and does NOT include the Vitalogy re-issue.

    The Vitalogy re-issue is two records, whereas the original Vitalogy was a single disc.


    http://www.pjcollectors.com/subcategory.asp?id=2
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  • Zod
    Zod Posts: 10,906
    I was just wondering what it was that made the non re-issue version worth so much. I didn't recall them being super rare (but that was probably when I actively sought them out in the late 90s).

    I thought maybe there was some super rare original issue from 93, and then a 2nd pressing had come out or something (not the re-issue).

    For some reason I thought Ten/VS/Vitalogy original versions weren't that rare. I guess they've become rare with time.....
  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,686
    edited April 2012
    Zod wrote:
    I was just wondering what it was that made the non re-issue version worth so much. I didn't recall them being super rare (but that was probably when I actively sought them out in the late 90s).

    I thought maybe there was some super rare original issue from 93, and then a 2nd pressing had come out or something (not the re-issue).

    For some reason I thought Ten/VS/Vitalogy original versions weren't that rare. I guess they've become rare with time.....
    All PJ first pressings are valuable. Because no one wants to give them up, they are hard to find, and the desire for them is what makes them expensive. People sell things for what people are willing to pay, and people who collect vinyl prefer first pressings just because it's the fact that they are original that makes them desirable. Of course, there are plenty of first pressings that are in terrible condition. Those aren't worth much at all. Collectors, though, want sealed or mint condition if they can get it, and there are very, very few of those around - of any pressing - since most people buy albums, open them, and play the fuck out of them. Especially PJ albums. Collectors don't want those. It's basically like the valuable Star Wars toy in the unopened packaging vs the played with opened toy, which is worthless.
    Post edited by PJ_Soul on
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  • javis el errante
    javis el errante Buenos Aires Posts: 6,144
    edited April 2012
    Lost In Ohio wrote:
    It was NOT an orange sticker in the middle of the vinyl.

    that's the label
    Lost In Ohio wrote:
    The lady said it was an original, but I'm not taking her word entirely 100% seriously.

    well done, the only woman's words I take soriously is my mom...
    Lost In Ohio wrote:

    Black sticker, eh?

    Anyone have a photo?

    exactly like this pic, but with black background and orange font, it might be a brazilian edition as well, I didn't konw that until now...

    http://www.pjcollectors.com/detail.asp?id=1368
    Post edited by javis el errante on
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  • javis el errante
    javis el errante Buenos Aires Posts: 6,144
    MedozK wrote:
    javis el errante wrote:
    check the label, if it's black, it's first pressing, if it's orange, it's reissue, if the vinyl comes inside a white jacket, it's the reissue... some first pressings have a black sticker stating Pearl Jam ONLY, and some Pearl Jam is printed on orange...
    Original
    photo1-1.jpg

    Reissue
    photo2-2.jpg

    Pretty easy to tell apart

    I forgot it was hafl black half beige, to me it was all black... everyone got it in the end, certainly the OP...
    ... I am not in the business of being liked anymore ...

  • bazzer
    bazzer Posts: 3,126
    I also didn't know these hadn't gotten so expensive. The funny thing is I had no idea that my copy had a label that looked like that. I've never played it, but maybe I hould check it when I get home just to see if it is liek that. It's definitely an early pressing so I suppose it must look like that.

    Now the question is, should I play my original pressing or the reissue? No point playing both...
  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,686
    edited April 2012
    bazzer wrote:
    I also didn't know these hadn't gotten so expensive. The funny thing is I had no idea that my copy had a label that looked like that. I've never played it, but maybe I hould check it when I get home just to see if it is liek that. It's definitely an early pressing so I suppose it must look like that.

    Now the question is, should I play my original pressing or the reissue? No point playing both...
    Play the reissue for sure, since the original will be way more valuable in time if you don't play it (hopefully it's still sealed, too). I got the sealed original Vitalogy pressing and tore it open as soon as I got it. But then 3 weeks later I got that $36 deal for PJ's first 3 albums, rereleased, and I'm kind of kicking myself for opening the original, since I'd be just as happy to listen to the rerelease and keep a sealed first pressing as a collectable and a potential resell years down the road, even though I've never sold a record in my life (I would never ever, however, not listen to a first pressing if I didn't have a rerelease. It's stupid to collect albums that you don't even listen to! It's just that in this case I just happened to end up with a second Vitalogy... actually I just happened to end up with the original one too. It was part of a package deal on EBay; I only bought it because it came with a sealed No Code, which is what I really wanted because there is no reissue yet!).
    Post edited by PJ_Soul on
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  • lando
    lando Posts: 661
    I hot mine for $40, sealed at a record store that just opened. I think they caught on after because they started selling the reissues for $35
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  • Lost In Ohio
    Lost In Ohio Posts: 7,255
    Zod wrote:
    I was just wondering what it was that made the non re-issue version worth so much. I didn't recall them being super rare (but that was probably when I actively sought them out in the late 90s).

    I thought maybe there was some super rare original issue from 93, and then a 2nd pressing had come out or something (not the re-issue).

    For some reason I thought Ten/VS/Vitalogy original versions weren't that rare. I guess they've become rare with time.....


    There *IS* an original (true "original") that misspell's Dave A's last name. I think this might just be CDs and/or tapes though. My newly-bought vinyl has the correct spelling, as the mishap was eventually corrected.
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