While CBS/Epic Records for the most part was pretty good about later pressings not being too lackluster in quality, to go back to a known-earlier pressing period reduces your chances of buying a deficient-sounding copy. As years go by, as the mastering engineers at a label have to repress an album for future record buyers, the opportunity for corner-cutting and shoddy quality control in the cutting stage of the album presents itself. In many ways, the closer that a record is to its first pressing, the higher the chance you’ll be hearing what the artists’ original sonic ideas were. The presence of an orange label will give you a clue that it was pressed between 19, which was the year that Epic changed its design to the blue label with the varsity-script Epic logo.
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