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Smashing Pumpkins Current Rarities Values - reference guide
* Prices reflect Sub Pop Singles Club Insert still intact. If Sub Pop Singles Club Insert is missing deduct 15% on the price.

** Not every CD release was put in here due to the fact you can go to your local used CD store and get a reality check of what your "mint" Siamese Dream CD is worth. This guide wanted to focus on the limited , promo, and obscure releases.

***Taken from the RIAA website. RIAA Awards are so rare because they are usually given directly to the band or figures in the music industry. Gold Award is for sales of at least 500,000. Platinum is for sales of 1,000,000. There are also Canadian Record Awards as well.

NOTE-As you noticed Hut has both white label promos and test pressings for most releases in the UK. For reference a white label promo is a promo containing simple white labels (often blank) given to radio stations, magazine editors/writers and a few record dealers. A test press on the other hand, is a manufacturer's sample record, pressed for quality control purposes only used by the pressing plant employees as a rule.

Regardless if you are buying a 7", LP, CD, Record Award, Poster or even a T-Shirt there is a grading system that can be applied. The following grading system from Goldmine, is used as a reference.

Near Mint (NM)-A nearly perfect record or CD. The record or CD should show no signs of wear including anything that comes with it (lyric sheets, posters, etc.)
Basically an item in NM condition looks as if you just got it home from a record store and removed the shrink-wrap.

Very Good Plus (VG+)-A VG+ record or CD will show some signs of being played and otherwise handled by a previous owner who took very good care of it. Record/CD surfaces may show some slight signs of wear and may have slight scuffs or very light scratches that *don't* affect listening to the item.
The linear notes or corners may be lightly turned up, etc. Basically except for a couple of minor defects, this would have otherwise been a NM item.

Very Good (VG)-Many of the defects listed on a VG+ item will be more pronounced in a VG item. Surface noise (such as cracks and pops) will be evident when playing the record or CD but will not overpower the listening experience. Labels or CDs will be marred with handwriting or stickers (including their residue) still attached.

Good (G)-A good record/CD is not a bad one. However it will have significant noise and scratches and visible wear and tear. It will play without skipping, but barely.

Fair (F) and Poor (P)-A piece of shit. If you are dumb enough to buy a record with this grading then you don't need to be collecting at all. Sell your collection at once and get a frontal lobotomy!

Now when buying Record Awards, T-Shirts and Posters use common sense.

Record Awards come in frames. Make sure the edges are clean and not scuffed, the glass is in good condition (not scratched or broken) and make sure it is intact.

T-Shirts should be the size they are supposed to be, not ripped, torn, have holes, stained, faded, etc.

Posters should not have folds, creases, tack holes, rips, tears, etc.

Hope this guide was helpful.

Special thanks to Dave Asselin and his online text discography, Steve Hemming and his Visual Discography and Aaron Grant for his support in making this a reality.

If you have any questions, need to make an update to this format or wish to add an item e-mail me at Smashpumpkins@aol.com.

Also I am looking for a few of these items, so feel free to check my webpage at http://members.aol.com/smashpumpkins/myhomepage/tunes.html

Thanks

Shawn Turner

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