It wasn’t a transport damage. The package was undamaged as well as the shrink wrap. I first thought it was just a bit of crumpled excess shrink wrap foil, but when I opened it, I saw that it was the sleeve itself. Sent them a message, but I guess that I wont get a reply before Monday.
My Bond music collection currently is 188 items strong, I’d say that 75% of them were delivered by mail, but the worst I ever had until now was a minor crack in a CD jewell case (coincidentally, it was the La-La Land Goldfinger CD)…
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On Her Majesty’s Secret Service is available now.
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Ordered.
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Only my favorite Bond score of all time. An absolute auto-buy!
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La-La Land Records, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, EON Productions and Universal Music Enterprises present a remastered and expanded 2-CD re-issue of renowned composer John Barry’s original motion picture score to the sixth James Bond film, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. Produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, the 1969 film stars George Lazenby as James Bond 007 and is directed by Peter Hunt, who edited the five previous Bond films.
With four legendary Bond scores already to his credit, composer John Barry reported for duty for the fifth time to provide the musical continuity and introduce a new 007, as George Lazenby would be first to succeed Sean Connery in the iconic role of Bond. The score, like the film, is thrilling and powerful, bursting with action, drama and glamour – and considered by many to be one of Barry’s finest works, as demonstrated within this deluxe 2-CD release. This remastered and expanded presentation of Barry’s score includes the songs “We Have All The Time In The World,” performed by Louis Armstrong and “Do You Know How Christmas Trees Are Grown?,” performed by Nina, with lyrics by Hal David
The album is produced and mixed by Neil S. Bulk, and mastered by Doug Schwartz, from the original 3-track 1/2" masters, with the song “We Have All The Time In The World” mixed from the original 1" 8-track tapes. Two cues that were unavailable on the stereo tapes are in the program’s bonus section, pulled from the mono film stem and processed into stereo by Chris Malone. Disc 1 and the opening of Disc 2 present the expanded score presentation. This is followed by the original 1969 soundtrack album, newly edited and mixed for this release. Disc 2 concludes with additional cues, including an unused film version of the song “We Have All The Time In The World” featuring Louis Armstrong.
Limited to 5000 units, this release features sharp art direction by Dan Goldwasser, with a new front cover designed by Jim Titus. The exclusive, in-depth liner notes are by journalist and author Jon Burlingame, with an introductory note by composer David Arnold.
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Thanks for mentioning, also ordered!
Reason?
Have, have, have! Greed, greed! 
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A classic Barry Bond, worked on by Neil for LLL, expanded, original masters - this is the real deal.
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…but still… I want the complete original TSWLM score, please!
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Ordered. I made a post 15 hours ago about checking for updates on this soundtrack, and here it is. Looks like it’s everything I wanted it to be.
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Reading the post, clicking the link and placing the order was a thing of a minute and a half. Could have been faster, but PayPal tried to act up… 
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Where did you all order it, Lalaland or 007 store.
I did Lala..
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La-La Land. What I’d pay at 007store for the CD only almost equals what I pay for the CD plus shipping at La-La Land, so there’s no question. Also, I prefer to support La-La Land and their great work by ordering from them instead of 007store.
Still awaiting a reply from them re that damaged GF vinyl, but I spoke to a friend who runs a mailorder vinyl shop. He says it’s a fairly common damage nowadays. The edges of the vinyl are to sharp, it would help if they’d grind the edges down a little bit (but this doesn’t lead to 100% safety). It almost always happens at the top, because the inner sleeve is open at the top. That’s a reason why good second hand dealers always ship their vinyls with the record separated from the sleeve.
He also told me that there are records of which each and every copy has this damage: they come from the pressing factory, packed into large boxes, and the delivery truck just has to get one stupid bump on the road. It’s impossible to pack them tight enough to avoid that the records move inside the sleeves. Sir Isaac Newton says so.
And with a shipping distance in my case of roughly 9,600 kilometers there a certainly enough bumps on the road. But I can’t help it, I have to play that lottery.
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Normaly I clicked the heart for liking but ofcourse it’s not a fun story, so I don’t.
I know what you mean, in the past I could go to the most nearby record store and if they didn’t have it in a perfect condition I would go to the next one untill I found a perfect record, but nowaydays you are lucky there is one store in your neighbourhood at all.
These days I too buy all vinyl online and I can only hope it arrives in good condition.
And ofcourse these Lala releases you don’t find in a normal store.
I hope they will change it or at least (partially?) refund you.
Last time I had scratches on a cd (TMWTGG) it was easy resolved and I got a new disc with my next order.
Thanks for explaining why second hand dealers put the disc outside the gatefold, I never understood this and I thought this was not good for the record, I think I once even complained about it. Now I know and understand this.
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In the days of old, there used to be half a dozen record stores in my (really small) hometown. They’re all gone, and when I go to MediaMarkt or Saturn, the choice they give you is a shame. And when you look at what they offer in the “Jazz” department, it’s an utter disgrace. 95% of that is Muzak. They don’t even have those “6 classic records on 4 CDs” compilations any more. I know where to get my stuff, if need be, but I’d really prefer the good old shopping experience.
We’ve got a record fair once, sometimes twice a year. You get tons of rather expensive Beatles, Stones, Grateful Dead, Zappa, Dylan etc. stuff, lots of German Schlager and truckloads of Heavy Metal. And most dealers leave the Soundtrack boxes at home because that stuff doesn’t sell at these events. 
(But there’s also an opportunity: last time, I snatched a Japanese 7" of AVTAK for a price that was really good, and when I checked it out at home, it turned out to be the rare promo version 
Refund would be nice, but I want and need a pristine copy.
Didn’t know that before, myself, so I thought I’d share. 
Learned a lot about all this on the weekend, my guy is a record dealer (and collector) in third generation(!). When there’s a party at his place, I usually have to stay for the night as he doesn’t live close. Love to wake up in one of the makeshift guest bedrooms the next morning, because when you look around, it looks like this:
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If it makes you feel any better, both of my copies of the new Goldfinger vinyl have a similar split on the jacket. I’m not bothered by it. They were never going to be pristine forever.
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You know this is the real deal when Prelude For Guitar And Strings, a cue barely audible in the film, is on the track listing. Thrilled to have a clean version of Grand Christmas Eve Ball, too. It plays so well against the tension on the screen.
Me too for the same reasons.
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I hope archaeologists in a thousand years will carefully brush away the data foam from these early layers of the net and realise this is what a cultured home used to look like…
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It helps having such a great image but I have to praise the new front cover designed by Jim Titus. It looks spectacular. The best one yet.
Listening to the samples and the film version of Try is sublime. It’s like falling in love with the film all over again.
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Got an email from Lala they shipped my Goldfinger LP, that is not very fast, I ordered it on 22 of
June.
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They are a small outlet, doing what they can with the limited amount of product they can stock.
But patience will be rewarded
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