Sealed Vinyl

Not to rain on your parade, but is it possible that what you found were Scorpio reissues? Scorpio is a wholesaler out of NJ which has flooded the market with vinyl from digital sources, many of which I suspect are unauthorized. I hope I am mistaken and your find is genuine NOS.

Hey Stew, aside from the obvious, which is to listen to the record, is there any way to figure out if a re-issue is from a digital source or the original analog master tapes?

I heard Simply Vinyl out of the UK did the same thing. I bought Nirvana's MTV Unplugged, and it doesn't sound as good as I imagined it would... bastards...hahaha.

Not to rain on your parade...again...but there are a variety of machines that can shrink-wrap an open album.

Also, it's interesting that British LP's were never sealed, and people could actually go into booths to listen to the albums before purchase. And cheers to the British for recognizing, developing, and releasing waves of talent [the 1st British invasion in the early '60's, and again in the early '80's] when American corporations were too dense to recognize new talent.