The MoFi Mess and TAS rolling over for them

Agreed. I wince when I hear the term record collector. I’m not collecting anything, I’m amassing a music library (my entire adult life), for listening to. And to then refer to record collecting as a hobby only makes it worse!

When I started buying LP’s it was the only music format available (well, except for 7" 45 RPM singles, of which I own about 500 or so). I never bought pre-recorded reel-to-reel, 8-track, or cassettes tapes, and when the CD was introduced ignored them for as long as possible. LP’s were phased out gradually, record companies offering new releases in both LP and CD formats into the 90’s, before finally abandoning the LP sometime in the middle of that decade. Then it was either buy CD’s, or not be able to listen to new music.

I recently received a marketing email from Music Direct promoting Fleetwood Mac - Fleetwood Mac: 2017 Remaster(Vinyl LP).

I wrote them asking for the source of this pressing.

This is the response from their "no reply" email:

Released in 2017 and no relevant information. Not a confidence builder.

ericsch: I believe Bernie Grundman mastered the 2017 version. Fremer might know the answer to your question.

@bdp24 You ever give any of those mid-‘70s re-issues of Tapestry a go?

IIRC, mine is the ‘75 US with the grey-on-white labels, not the ‘77 beige labels.

Sounds better than the OG pressings I’d gone through multiple times.

@tylermunns: No, no mid-70's pressings. I wore out my original; In 1971 I was backing a chick singer who did a coupla songs from the album, and played the album a LOT. "Smackwater Jack" was a lot of fun to play. Drummer Russ Kunkel and bassist Leland Sklar were real good at creating a killer groove and feel. That's why they got as much studio work as they did.