De Agostini - 'The Beatles Vinyl Collection' mail order set via subscription

Yes, shocked to find it’s now fifty quid. Insanity. Deagostini is a bargain, though I suspect they’ve disappeared fast this Christmas.

On the other hand, I got an original Dutch copy this morning for eight quid. Fantastic condition, near mint, thing sounds incredible. Quite frankly, one of the best copies I’ve ever heard.

 

I bought the Deagostini today. Plus lots of Whisky in Tesco's. Lots of great offers. I recommend the 12 Year old Glenfiddich. Anyhow, the Deagostini sounds brilliant. Flawless. I'm struggling to tell it is not AAA!

 

G'way er that! Black Bush is yer only man.

 

One can buy the regular Red and Blue albums for $35 in NYC

 

What do you mean by "regular"?

 

The AAA pressings from 2014. Non DeAgostini. That is what I mean

 

Lucky you. However, in Europe, the price has gone through the roof. Why, I don’t know. Consequently the DeAgostini, at half the price, are somewhat of a bargain (subject to availability).

 

After sitting with the DeAgostini pressing of the Red album, I found it inferior to the AAA pressing from 2014. So, I’ve passed on the Blue.

I do prefer the DeAgostini versions of the core catalog. They sound better than the 2012 reissues

 

Yes, it’s digital.

 

If the Analogue pressing of this album sounds significantly better I’m guessing there must not be much in it sonically as the Blue album for me sounds absolutely lovely. I’ve got the original from the 70s in my collection but it’s filed away in my stack of 15 flight boxes probably at the bottom row so they won’t be coming out to compare the two!....

 

The Anthologies are €75 each in Golden Discs!

 

Picked the Blue up with the foil for the turkey this morning.

It’s a nice package. (The LP, not the foil).

 

Bet your life I could tell the difference between the AAA and digital. The 2014 AAA blue album sounds better than a UK first press. Try looking at Amazon sellers. 'Assai-uk' have them for £38 and they are a very reliable seller with good packaging and dealing with returns. I checked and I paid over £31 each from Amazon when released.

 

Yes, that I knew, but the question pertained to the AAA 1967-1970, which until recently, was available for 33GBP approx. 49 is nuts!

 

Ah, but listening to the LP will be a good foil for the eating of the turkey.

 

At the time, I ordered both from Amazon Germany where they were 27€ each!

 

Picked up my copy, of the Blue 67-70, in my local Tesco's yesterday I was lucky to get one, they only had 2 in stock. Must have sold quickly, with it being xmas, people buying them, as xmas presents possibly.
Nice packaging, the sleeve, and labels, are a darker blue shade, than the original glossy, thick cardboard lyric inners, i've replaced them, with poly lined, anti static inners, nice insert. The vinyl, looks, v.clean, and flawless, Disc 2, Side 3, looks a bit dirty, will give it a clean, it should'nt affect the S.Q.

Looking forward, to giving it a spin, over the xmas wkend, if it sounds, like the Red 62-66, i'm in for a treat..
This is an upgrade copy, for me, as i have an original German Import copy, but 1 disc, is scratched, as i've owned it, now for over 35 yrs, and played it to death, i was playing it, the other night, the S.Q, on that is fantastic.

 

Just checked Amazon Germany where the Red and Blue AAA are still just 33€ each and Anthology 3 is around 39€!

 

I was very also very lucky to pick up the AAA 2014 red and blue for only £20 each just after they came out - from BestSellerRecordShop in the Netherlands.

 

Score! I got Van Morrison's "Duets" from the same crowd - for six pounds. Unfortunately it was shoithe.

 

Just listening to blue now..... on the 2014 AAA cut does the intro to ‘A Day In The Life’ have the crowd noise fading in from what would have been on the end of the reprise of Sgt Pepper? I thought that 1967-70 was unique in that it had a clean guitar intro to ADITL

 

Great business BestSellerRecordShop. I bought most of The Who and Queen vinyl reissued from them. Great service

 

As I recall the original release did not have the clean intro and the 2014 apes that.

The clean into first appeared on the soundtrack LP to Imagine and after that was added to the Blue, supplanting the earlier version.

If memory serves, etc. E&OE.

 

I seem to recall delivery was slower than other Marketplace sellers.

 

Quite content with my '73 UK AAA copy, thank you.