U2 The Joshua Tree (Quiex, DMM, Masterdisk, Insert)
RARE ORIGINAL 1987 DIRECT METAL MASTER MASTERDISK AUDIOPHILE PRESSING ON TRANSLUCENT QUIEX VINYL! Complete with fold-out POSTER/LYRIC INSERT! DMM and MASTERDISK etched in dead wax run-outs.
Vinyl has several light surface sleeve scuffs/scratches just holding grade back from NM-, nothing I can feel. Labels have a few faint spindle marks. Fold-out poster/lyric insert has light handling wear/wrinkling. Gatefold cover has cornerwear, light edgewear, faint ringwear/hazing and an 'X' written in permanent marker bottom right corner of front cover.
Songs: Where The Streets Have No Name, I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, With Or Without You, Bullet The Blue Sky, Running To Stand Still and others.
If you’re not familiar with Quiex, it's like this: As CDs began coming on the scene in the 1980s, record companies started pressing Quiex II lps for primarily for radio stations. The idea was to show that vinyl was still king and sounded as good--or better--than CDs. MOST Quiex pressings were marked as Quiex that were shipped to radio. But if too many were pressed, they were packaged as regular LPs and those lucky enough to unknowingly buy them were then blessed with clearer sound! This translucent brown Audiophile beauty IS one of those pressings.
Genre: Rock
Condition: VG++
Cover Condition: VG++Label: Island Records
Reference Number: 90581-1
Date: 1987
Country: US
SKU: 14490
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Audiophile Pressings > Audiophile Pressings
$75