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    Posted: June 30 2008 at 17:24
Okay... so I just noticed something odd that I can't seem to find any information on. Here's a picture of Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here cover art - very familiar, is it not?



Now here's a picture of my pressing:



Notice some subtle differences in the buildings and the man leaning backwards as opposed to forwards.

Does anyone know anything about this?? Any comments are appreciated.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 30 2008 at 17:43
From Wiki:

Beneath the outer cover, which on the U.S. release was dark blue, Columbia originally released the LP with a slightly different sleeve, using an alternative picture showing the burning man standing up straight (instead of leaning toward the other businessman) and taken from a lower angle. Columbia started using the more familiar EMI photo in 1984 for their first CD issue and kept using it in subsequent reissues, the only exception being the "SBM MasterSound Collector's Edition". There are other, subtler differences in the artwork of the more commonly-found remastered CD: the naked female is clearly visible behind the veil in the LP artwork, but is almost completely obscured in the remastered CD booklet; the photo of the diver used in this booklet is larger, and shows more of the background salt formations; additional black-and-white photos of the band working in Abbey Road Studios were added to this booklet as well.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 30 2008 at 19:27
If it was on wiki then I have no idea HOW I missed that

Thanks though!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 30 2008 at 19:40
Originally posted by King By-Tor King By-Tor wrote:

If it was on wiki then I have no idea HOW I missed that Thanks though!


When you bought it, they looked at your face and well, you know..

I don't have any of those. But seriously, yours seems quite odd, well at least for me cause I have a different one, duh!

I got this one:


I think mine's the remaster, though I may be wrong.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 01 2008 at 03:20
^^^ yeah my cd looks like that too, but my vinyl has the other cover. Coooool.
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