On the New Zealand online trading site Trade Me, a former PolyGram NZ employee is selling 6 mint platinum/black True Colours LP sleeves...just the sleeves!

This is the limited NZ-only numbered edition of the LP released later in 1980 to commemorate double platinum sales. Only 2,500 were printed.



True Colours platinum/black LP sleeves

...so if you can pick up a cheap copy of a regular NZ pressing of the LP, you'd be able match up the record from that with one of these sleeves. Great for those who don't have a copy of this very rare colour combo.

To be a Trade Me member, you must be in NZ or Aussie.

Good luck Gav.

I already have a copy, Jaff!

I don't. Maybe if I do a black and white photocopy of one of my coloured sleeves, paste it over a cheap John Denver LP cover from a secondhand shop and slip it in amongst my Split Enz LPs, I'll be able to fool myself into thinking that I do.

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I don't. Maybe if I do a black and white photocopy of one of my coloured sleeves, paste it over a cheap John Denver LP cover from a secondhand shop and slip it in amongst my Split Enz LPs, I'll be able to fool myself into thinking that I do.

Sounds like the perfect thing to do with a John Denver LP there Jaff.....

Music industry staff selling promo's? There is no way that would ever happen. Right?

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I don't. Maybe if I do a black and white photocopy of one of my coloured sleeves, paste it over a cheap John Denver LP cover from a secondhand shop and slip it in amongst my Split Enz LPs, I'll be able to fool myself into thinking that I do.

That would be the cheapest option Jaffa.

I have this on my watchlist. Along with lots of other stuff that I can't afford at the moment.

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Originally posted by Semi-Detached:
a former PolyGram NZ employee is selling 6 mint platinum/black True Colours LP sleeves...just the sleeves!

...so if you can pick up a cheap copy of a regular NZ pressing of the LP, you'd be able match up the record from that with one of these sleeves.

Annoying that he's selling them in one batch. They don't look that "mint" to me either. Gav was the actual LP identical to the standard NZ pressing? - I don't like the idea of reconstituting a Limited Edition

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Originally posted by David Goldsmith:
Annoying that he's selling them in one batch. They don't look that "mint" to me either. Gav was the actual LP identical to the standard NZ pressing? - I don't like the idea of reconstituting a Limited Edition

Does this edition have a unique catalogue number?

I have this bought my copy (with LP)at Real Groovy in Auckland last year for $25 can you believe my luck, I could'nt

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Originally posted by David Goldsmith:
Annoying that he's selling them in one batch. They don't look that "mint" to me either. Gav was the actual LP identical to the standard NZ pressing? - I don't like the idea of reconstituting a Limited Edition

Well, perhaps not mint, but still fairly good condition. Yeah, he should've split them up...who wants/needs 6 copies?

I have a copy of this and, yes, the LP is identical to the initial issue...same orange Polydor label, same catalogue number (ENZ 1)...so it wouldn't be a stretch to "reconstitute" (unless it plays on your conscience, but I know what you mean, DG).

Tis a bit silly to sell them all together. I would love one, I don't even have a True Colours LP of any colour (we don't have a record player)...

When you have a close look at the larger picture on the ad, they don't look all that mint to me either.

I think I'll wait until a single sale comes along, or until I can buy one in a secondhand shop that where I can actually see the quality before I buy it.