Forever Columbia
The Psychedelic Furs - Forever Now [PC 38261 USA 1982 24-Bit FLAC] Anybody who worked in music retail during the seventies and eighties will know what a "columbia sticker" was. Those black circles about the size of a record label made up of many parts, peeled off their backing to cover up the words Columbia or Columbia Broadcasting Systems as the very word Columbia was deemed illegal on any item of music which was not released by EMI. CBS were also a huge multi-national record label and both could not agree as to which of them had the rights to the name Columbia. Even Springsteen suffered from the problem. Fans knew the US pressing always sounded better than the flimsy pressings elsewhere on CBS so hunted down American pressings and those with the missing cover up were deemed highly collectible outside the US. Some imports into Germany looked like this . This copy of Forever Now is an original 1982 US pressing on superior vinyl in the thicker card sleeve, it i...