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Color me confused as hell. How is this record this good? I don't mean the tracks, they are generically 60s in quality, and i don't mean the mastering, it's way too hot across the board, i mean the physical record. 

As far as i can find, Pricewise was a Scepter imprint that has a discography of 5 albums. They lasted about a year. This is the 3rd record they put out from 1965. Obviously, the quotes are cautionary, they're saying "don't worry, the next 5 years of music will be crap."

Let's be real, this is the carryover of the 50s, it's dance crazes and prom fodder. And no, it's not pleasant to listen to, these are dubs of dubs with nasty clipping and the sounds of the transfer machinery thrown in (i lowered my master volume and it's still there), but the gaps are pretty much silent with only the tiniest bit of dust popping. If i cleaned it it would be near perfect. It's immaculately VG+ garbage! 

I often wonder when i read record reviews, because half the time i think people have no idea how terrible these recordings were to begin with. Hahahaha! The corporate blurb on the back is all about the best music at the best value. "We know you will agree with us that we are fulfilling our objective" of seeing if we can milk as much money as possible out of you in a short amount of time for the absolute minimum investment possible. Are you tired of paying lots of money for good sounding recordings? Want to see if this is a tolerable middle ground? Pricewise, at least we didn't hire scabs to re-record them.

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