I own two Mobile Fidelity “MoFi” records, the above Weezer “blue album”, released in 2012 and a 1980 copy of Abbey Road by the Beatles. I inherited the Abbey Road LP from a family collection and bought the Weezer album at a local store here in Nashville a few years ago.
MoFi records are expensive when released and I always hesitate to buy them. When it comes to music buying, I’ve historically been more of a quantity over quality guy. I’m fine passing up one expensive original pressing record if it means I can buy a stack of other records instead. I’ve sold first pressings out of collections I’ve bought and kept my regular pressing to play without any regrets.
But the older I get, and the more curated my record collection becomes, I’m starting to think I might prefer a higher quality record pressing like what MoFi offers.
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