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I love this album. Dearly. Despite the reissue's shortcomings, I'm ultimately happy with the purchase. I love it that much, because the shortcomings are ridiculous.
Sound quality is passable (likely mastered from a CD,) cover is surprisingly crappy...super thin, obviously the cheapest they could manage. If I had come across this in a store, I'd assume it was a bootleg (just to be clear: it isn't. It's just indistinguishable from one.)
Colored vinyl. Mine was pressed off center. Assuming mine wasn't alone.
I love this album enough that I'm ultimately happy with the purchase (a carefully applied Exacto knife and a little elbow grease can fix the off-center issue.) I'm mostly aghast at how shoddy the packaging is. I inadvertently purchased a bootleg copy of The Stone Roses' debut, and it blows this out of the water across the board. If you've ever seen an album that was issued by the former Soviet Union's one and only record label Melodiya, you know what the cover of this is like. I hate to harp on this, but seriously, guys.
On top of it all, this issue is a co-effort by the Universal Music Group and Kanine records. Universal could obviously care less, but Kanine is a really good label. Weird.
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