I am very pleased you got a Canadian copy of the Something For Everybody album from the Smith Falls, Ontario Plant. This Plant is amazing and look at that great job on the cover. This Plant boasts of producing the first Beatles Single of Love Me Do, even before the Americans. Dolly Parton got a Tour of the Smith Falls Plant, since she was recording with RCA Victor. She took an interest in Canadian Country Music which was popular with Anne Murray on Capitol Records. I met the writer of Snowbird, Gene McLellan, who was in a small country church and he talked about his life and writing songs like Snowbird. That song Elvis recorded on his famous Elvis Country, which to me, is one of his finest studio albums with great Country tunes, like Faded Love and the whole album is gigantic performances. Put Your Hand in the Hand was also written by Gene, and Elvis recorded and placed on Elvis Now. The Canadian artists like Gordon Lightfoot, who said Elvis' version of Early Morning Rain is the best he ever heard doing his song. CHUM Radio in Toronto played that song from Elvis Now and it made the Charts being just an album cut. Thanks, for sharing these great Japan albums, so clean for very little.
I also have a couple of rare early Canadian singles - Mystery Train on the blue label, and Milkcow Blues Boogie, 1955 (?) Preview Series white label promo. I remember seeing a video about how you Canadians took to the Beatles before the Americans. Their records were released on a variety of Mickey Mouse labels before Capitol finally bothered to do so. Great info, thanks.
Wow! Buying international pressings here in the USA is generally an expensive proposition. Many US sellers will pump up the price to a point that is comparable, or just below, the price to buy overseas including shipping charges. I recently ran across a seller from Japan that was selling Japanese 70s pressing VERY inexpensively, so I was able to pick up a bunch of them in one package, which made the shipping cost acceptable. In my part of the US I never find Elvis records "in the wild" in good condition that aren't very overpriced...even the beat up ones are too expensive.
Standard Japanese pressings from the '70s are very common and you can find them for prices that are less than shipping costs so, as you say, buying several at once is a good way to go. I've sold a few sets myself for $100.00 including international shipping.
Amazing finds David, For the last few few weeks I’ve been going to a antique store buying many 1960s and 1970s artist LPs from a massive lp collection. Unfortunately all the Elvis LPs are sold out before I arrive. The store owner can not put out the complete collection until he’s sold enough to display the next lot. Some of the LPs are even signed by the artist. It’s like a time warp seeing many artists of yesteryear. This Thursday will be another drop of more LPs for sale. Going back to your reviews I’d definitely would but the 2 lp set with Elvis and the band gatefold. From TTWII doco. My friend noted that there is a third guitarist with the orchestra in the back. A top review!😊
Sounds like a huge collection if he can't put it out at once. Still, I guess it keeps people coming back for the next drop. I hope you find some good stuff.
What an awesome bargain haul David, I particularly like the King Of Rock n Roll double album, as I had a French copy of that during my first stint of collecting in the 70s, in fact I never got Flaming Star or Let's Be Friends at the time, as I had all the tracks on that one release
I used to have Flaming Star with that Clambake-era Elvis photo on the front (not the "cowboy" one) but I had a tough time finding Let's Be Friends, and Almost in Love for that matter. My dad ended up ordering them for me as imports. They took weeks to arrive from the US.
@ElvisPresleyInJapan Ah, simpler times, if I couldn't pick something up at our local record store, I vividly remember either getting my dad to write a cheque, or going to the Post Office to buy a postal order and then sending off to either the Heanor Record Centre, or there was another place called Trends, near Leicester, that advertised in Elvis Monthly. Then what seemed like an endless wait for the postman to arrive 😊
Some very nice additions there David. I especially liked the Bonus Songs album. A superb collection and one I play quite a lot. Oh that Italian Elvis Is Back looks great too!!!
Hi Dave,great haul there for £27 you’ve done really well ,a love those German black labels they sound great av quite a few now but am always looking for them,that Canadian something for everybody is so much better than the US and UK ,makes me wonder why the original cover wasn’t done like that ,that album with the unfinished back looked like a scratch card Dave makes you want to get a coin and reveal what’s in the box,s 😂,you certainly left the best until last that Italian pressing of EL is back looked superb well done av got an Italian pressing of the first golden records ,70s pressing on Orange ,the covers not in great nick but tha well made those Italian sleeves,great video Dave ,take care ,tony 🎸🎶💃👍
Hi, Tony. Scratch card - I love it. 😂 It seems like with Something for Everybody, they may have been going for a G.I. Blues cover vibe, with that side bar, although G.I. Blues had great fonts. On Something or Everybody, we got those tacky stars. I was really surprised by how good that Italian pressing was myself. I'm on the lookout for more early Italian releases as a result. Cheers, Tony.
Hey David my dear friend, its Lior, how are you? Great find ,great items, love those Black label german, still looking that Aloha from Hawaii, i collect those Black international labels also , still need to complete the collection of those releases , Great Something for everybody and Elvis Is Back LPs ❤ cheers , Lior 😊
Hi, Lior. I hope you're well. It must be tough to find German records where you are. Maybe one day you can get to Japan and take back an armful. I'll show you around.
Nice video and some great Elvis treasures,, really love the double album set of Elvis bonus songs. Have seen it on line but going for crazy amount of $$$. It seems that here in the states i have notice that in the last couple of years the prices of Elvis albums and cds have gone up. I haven't bought a Elvis album in a couple of years just mainly cds because of all the high prices. In fact i buy alot of my Elvis cds from the UK because its cheaper to buy overseas than here in the states. Even with shipping it's just nuts.
I would have thought prices would be coming down, given the amount of used product out there and the ease with which you can buy it online these days. Maybe people are getting greedy or don't know what's rare and what's not.
Hi David, what great finds! I am really jealous! Thanks for Sharing them with us. My latest acquisition is MRS Christmas Album. Vinyl and CD, plus Paul Albers new book. That’s my Christmas pressie to myself. Any tips were to find these gems? Stay safe. Ellie. 🎼🎵❤️😃👍⚡️
Hi David I love your channel and always anticipate when your new videos will come out because they are always very informative. There's a subject I don't remember you covering yet that being the mastering of these Japanese pressings. Although I have to admit the artwork on these are phenomenal as compared to most of the US releases, but I don't understand the sound quality reasoning on these are most (At Madison Square Garden" from 1972 as an example, why are these mastered so EQ'd sounding and lacking the warmth compared to the US pressing? I have heard a rumor that they were mastered for the small apartment living spaces as there are quite a few of these as a norm in Japan. Not sure if that has any merit but they all just have that sound as if they used Dolby to master them and then when we play them back they sound as if they are being played without being able to use a Dolby option. It ia a shame too because the album artwork is so beautiful on these japanese releases and the sound just isn't there. I am using a "VPI Super Prime Scout 21" Turntable with a "Sumiko Songbird" Cart. This thing can make K-tel LP's sound good so it's not hard to distinguish between different mastering of LP. Just wondering your thoughts on the sound quality of the Japanese compared to the US original catalogue 56-77? Thanks David
Yes, that's an interesting topic. I'm not sure my limited knowledge of it justifies making a video about it, unfortunately. I will say I don't think there's any truth to the "small houses" theory of Japanese mastering. It's more likely to be a case of cutting engineers working to achieve what they think sounds best to Japanese people. Many people outside Japan may not like, say, Japanese beer as much as beer from their own country, but it suits the Japanese. Same with, say, curry. What the Japanese call curry is quite different to what an Indian would call curry. But the Japanese like it. I've heard people from overseas say Japanese records are bass- and treble-light. There's also the fact that, with overseas artists, they never have the best copies of the master tapes to work with, of course. On the other hand, there are a lot of people who like Japanese records because of the quiet vinyl from the '70s onwards. Taking Japanese records from the 1950s as a whole, it seems the record manufacturing process wasn't as sophisticated as in the US at that time. Just by looking at a Japanese LP and a US LP from then, one clearly looks better than the other. I don't think I've ever heard a Japanese record from that period that sounded as good as a US equivalent. However, British records from that time do sound great. I used to sell guitars for a living and Japanese guitars from the 1950s were terrible. They soon caught up, though, to the point that their instruments were considered as good as many American ones. The same may have been true for record production. Given the quieter vinyl, I have a slight preference for later Japanese pressings over other countries but, as you say, there will also be a difference in sound if you have good equipment. I don't have great equipment, and I have poor ears, both making it difficult for me to talk about all this with any real authority. Sorry for the long-winded answer but I think you'll see why it's a subject I stay away from in my videos. Thanks for your great comment.
All of that for 5000¥ ?! I'm very jelous 😮 You cannot buy that and in that condition all of them in my country for that kind of money... Amazing! Funny one the 'I'll never walk alone'...flippy, real flippy. Italian 'Elvis is back' is a preciousss one ❤ And my copy of the king of rock and roll double (french with green labels) is not in cover as nm as that. Envy strikes back 😂 I didn't know about the bonus songs album! Enjoy them all, thanks for showing off 😂 Cheers!
It's sad that there are almost no new younger Elvis fans in Japan. One positive for record collectors, though, is that used vinyl - especially later import pressings - can be found for reasonable prices.
@@ElvisPresleyInJapan sad indeed! Next time there I could start a trend (I wish) 😂 But really, I thought they used to love him. What would be the main reason for the decreasing exposure to Elvis in time... Was the 'pass on the next generation' natural human behavior failing? Could it be it has something to do with ageism in japanese society? 🤔 Sorry, your comment made me think about the whys and hows...😅 I'm a curious type.
@@pcalcas I think it's because it's been a long time since he died. The Rolling Stones and The Beatles are still popular but some of their members are not only still alive but still making music.
All those albums for £27! Incredible. As you'll already have guessed the All time greatest is extremely rare as it is a Dutch pressing, the King Creole has the added value of the INTS sticker on the rear (German pressing imported to the UK) The King of Rock n Roll was originally a French Album and very hard to find as the black label German pressing. What a great haul. What are they all doing in Japan????
I thought I was lucky just getting nice pressings for great prices. Rare into the bargain? Even better. I'll have to try more 5,000-yen challenges. Thanks for the info!
Wow awesome finds David, you will not find those in Europe that cheap. I am currently in the process of completing both my German black label collection (1982-1989) and my green label RCA International UK releases 1980-1987) as these sound different and (mostly) superior to records released before. Especially I love the Boppin' Bob Jones mixes (and from his collegues like "Big Pete" by the London studio that provided remixes for RCA Ltd in the 80s), which to my ears are among the very best mixes on Elvis vinyl one could buy. It's funny, because these 80s releases often are of exceptional (sound) quality, yet people judge them to be budget releases. I have bought over 10 of these releases of each (black and green labels) over the last few weeks but still a long list to go.😂
I used to have a lot of Boppin' Bob records, growing up in England in the late '70s / early '80s. Many of them were mid-priced albums - great bargains considering many of them had been deleted for years. I didn't appreciate how good they sounded at the time. The German black releases came out just as I started spending my money on other artists but I'm enjoying building up a collection now.
From memory the red presley album as some surprises wear my ring undubbed no guitar slapping......wonder of you different mix......always on my mind with original strings.....american trilogy this is elvis version .......best sounding love letters that i've ever heard.......moody blue and way down alternate mixes...suspicious minds no horns and shorter
Wow brilliant buys David! I think I need you to buy for me in the future 😂… great video and enjoyed seeing the extra adds to your collection 👌
Good to have you back, Adam.
Hi David thanks, Daniel ❤️
You’re welcome 😊
I am very pleased you got a Canadian copy of the Something For Everybody album from the Smith Falls, Ontario Plant. This Plant is amazing and look at that great job on the cover. This Plant boasts of producing the first Beatles Single of Love Me Do, even before the Americans. Dolly Parton got a Tour of the Smith Falls Plant, since she was recording with RCA Victor. She took an interest in Canadian Country Music which was popular with Anne Murray on Capitol Records. I met the writer of Snowbird, Gene McLellan, who was in a small country church and he talked about his life and writing songs like Snowbird. That song Elvis recorded on his famous Elvis Country, which to me, is one of his finest studio albums with great Country tunes, like Faded Love and the whole album is gigantic performances. Put Your Hand in the Hand was also written by Gene, and Elvis recorded and placed on Elvis Now. The Canadian artists like Gordon Lightfoot, who said Elvis' version of Early Morning Rain is the best he ever heard doing his song. CHUM Radio in Toronto played that song from Elvis Now and it made the Charts being just an album cut. Thanks, for sharing these great Japan albums, so clean for very little.
I also have a couple of rare early Canadian singles - Mystery Train on the blue label, and Milkcow Blues Boogie, 1955 (?) Preview Series white label promo.
I remember seeing a video about how you Canadians took to the Beatles before the Americans. Their records were released on a variety of Mickey Mouse labels before Capitol finally bothered to do so. Great info, thanks.
Good albums, new fans who don't want originals can build a good collection on a budget.
Yep, plenty of fine later pressings out there.
Wow! Buying international pressings here in the USA is generally an expensive proposition. Many US sellers will pump up the price to a point that is comparable, or just below, the price to buy overseas including shipping charges. I recently ran across a seller from Japan that was selling Japanese 70s pressing VERY inexpensively, so I was able to pick up a bunch of them in one package, which made the shipping cost acceptable. In my part of the US I never find Elvis records "in the wild" in good condition that aren't very overpriced...even the beat up ones are too expensive.
Standard Japanese pressings from the '70s are very common and you can find them for prices that are less than shipping costs so, as you say, buying several at once is a good way to go. I've sold a few sets myself for $100.00 including international shipping.
Amazing finds David, For the last few few weeks I’ve been going to a antique store buying many 1960s and 1970s artist LPs from a massive lp collection. Unfortunately all the Elvis LPs are sold out before I arrive. The store owner can not put out the complete collection until he’s sold enough to display the next lot. Some of the LPs are even signed by the artist. It’s like a time warp seeing many artists of yesteryear. This Thursday will be another drop of more LPs for sale. Going back to your reviews I’d definitely would but the 2 lp set with Elvis and the band gatefold. From TTWII doco. My friend noted that there is a third guitarist with the orchestra in the back. A top review!😊
Sounds like a huge collection if he can't put it out at once. Still, I guess it keeps people coming back for the next drop. I hope you find some good stuff.
What an awesome bargain haul David, I particularly like the King Of Rock n Roll double album, as I had a French copy of that during my first stint of collecting in the 70s, in fact I never got Flaming Star or Let's Be Friends at the time, as I had all the tracks on that one release
I used to have Flaming Star with that Clambake-era Elvis photo on the front (not the "cowboy" one) but I had a tough time finding Let's Be Friends, and Almost in Love for that matter. My dad ended up ordering them for me as imports. They took weeks to arrive from the US.
@ElvisPresleyInJapan Ah, simpler times, if I couldn't pick something up at our local record store, I vividly remember either getting my dad to write a cheque, or going to the Post Office to buy a postal order and then sending off to either the Heanor Record Centre, or there was another place called Trends, near Leicester, that advertised in Elvis Monthly. Then what seemed like an endless wait for the postman to arrive 😊
@@sincerelyelvispresley Yes, I spent quite a bit of money buying things from the Heanor Record Centre. I even bought a couple of bootlegs from them.
Very nice acquisitions, especially for the price! ⚡️
Thank you, sir.
Wow awesome finds 👍😀
Thanks 👍
Some very nice additions there David. I especially liked the Bonus Songs album. A superb collection and one I play quite a lot. Oh that Italian Elvis Is Back looks great too!!!
Funny thing about that Bonus Songs album, the first record sounds quite ordinary while disc two sounds great.
@@ElvisPresleyInJapan must get my copy out again as I’m sure mine sounded fine. Let you know. Thanks
Beautiful,I'm going to get you to buy all my records from now on lol ,well at least my wife will .
Great vidro
Luckily, I don't have the space to buy more or I probably would. Imports are pretty reasonable here, especially posthumous releases.
Ha ha! I had to laugh at Paul's comment😂
I love those black label RCA International pressings... most of them have exceptional sound! Those are some great finds, David!!!
Many thanks.
Great pickups David TCB ❤
Thank you, sir.
My very first record ~20 years ago was an Elvis gospel LP... It's still sitting around somewhere haha.
Lovely video my friend thank you ❤
Thank you very much.
Hi Dave,great haul there for £27 you’ve done really well ,a love those German black labels they sound great av quite a few now but am always looking for them,that Canadian something for everybody is so much better than the US and UK ,makes me wonder why the original cover wasn’t done like that ,that album with the unfinished back looked like a scratch card Dave makes you want to get a coin and reveal what’s in the box,s 😂,you certainly left the best until last that Italian pressing of EL is back looked superb well done av got an Italian pressing of the first golden records ,70s pressing on Orange ,the covers not in great nick but tha well made those Italian sleeves,great video Dave ,take care ,tony 🎸🎶💃👍
Hi, Tony. Scratch card - I love it. 😂 It seems like with Something for Everybody, they may have been going for a G.I. Blues cover vibe, with that side bar, although G.I. Blues had great fonts. On Something or Everybody, we got those tacky stars. I was really surprised by how good that Italian pressing was myself. I'm on the lookout for more early Italian releases as a result. Cheers, Tony.
Hey David my dear friend, its Lior, how are you? Great find ,great items, love those Black label german, still looking that Aloha from Hawaii, i collect those Black international labels also , still need to complete the collection of those releases , Great Something for everybody and Elvis Is Back LPs ❤ cheers , Lior 😊
Hi, Lior. I hope you're well. It must be tough to find German records where you are. Maybe one day you can get to Japan and take back an armful. I'll show you around.
@@ElvisPresleyInJapan Hi David, thank you my dear friend, yes i would love that , sounds great 👍 , Cheers , Lior
Nice video and some great Elvis treasures,, really love the double album set of Elvis bonus songs. Have seen it on line but going for crazy amount of $$$. It seems that here in the states i have notice that in the last couple of years the prices of Elvis albums and cds have gone up. I haven't bought a Elvis album in a couple of years just mainly cds because of all the high prices. In fact i buy alot of my Elvis cds from the UK because its cheaper to buy overseas than here in the states. Even with shipping it's just nuts.
I would have thought prices would be coming down, given the amount of used product out there and the ease with which you can buy it online these days. Maybe people are getting greedy or don't know what's rare and what's not.
Hi David, what great finds! I am really jealous! Thanks for Sharing them with us. My latest acquisition is MRS Christmas Album. Vinyl and CD, plus Paul Albers new book. That’s my Christmas pressie to myself. Any tips were to find these gems? Stay safe. Ellie. 🎼🎵❤️😃👍⚡️
You'll have to get to Japan. I should start a new business organising record shop tours over here ️😃 Thanks, Ellie.
If I was younger I would hop on a plans to Japan and spend a week combing through as many record bars as I could find😊😊
@@Patracat You could probably spend the whole week just visiting all the record stores in Tokyo, it's that big.
@@ElvisPresleyInJapan That sounds a good idea David!
Gorgeous records. I’ll be showing Presley all time greatest hits on all 3 formats in my next Elvis video. Haha you beat me to it. 🙂
I'll be sure to watch it. I only have the LP.
Great finds for the money. Nice to see you grab a Canadian Something For Everybody. Agreed, the Canadian cover is so much better than the US.
Yes, so much classier without that cheap and nasty sidebar.
Hi David I love your channel and always anticipate when your new videos will come out because they are always very informative. There's a subject I don't remember you covering yet that being the mastering of these Japanese pressings. Although I have to admit the artwork on these are phenomenal as compared to most of the US releases, but I don't understand the sound quality reasoning on these are most (At Madison Square Garden" from 1972 as an example, why are these mastered so EQ'd sounding and lacking the warmth compared to the US pressing? I have heard a rumor that they were mastered for the small apartment living spaces as there are quite a few of these as a norm in Japan. Not sure if that has any merit but they all just have that sound as if they used Dolby to master them and then when we play them back they sound as if they are being played without being able to use a Dolby option. It ia a shame too because the album artwork is so beautiful on these japanese releases and the sound just isn't there. I am using a "VPI Super Prime Scout 21" Turntable with a "Sumiko Songbird" Cart. This thing can make K-tel LP's sound good so it's not hard to distinguish between different mastering of LP.
Just wondering your thoughts on the sound quality of the Japanese compared to the US original catalogue 56-77?
Thanks David
Yes, that's an interesting topic. I'm not sure my limited knowledge of it justifies making a video about it, unfortunately. I will say I don't think there's any truth to the "small houses" theory of Japanese mastering. It's more likely to be a case of cutting engineers working to achieve what they think sounds best to Japanese people. Many people outside Japan may not like, say, Japanese beer as much as beer from their own country, but it suits the Japanese. Same with, say, curry. What the Japanese call curry is quite different to what an Indian would call curry. But the Japanese like it.
I've heard people from overseas say Japanese records are bass- and treble-light. There's also the fact that, with overseas artists, they never have the best copies of the master tapes to work with, of course. On the other hand, there are a lot of people who like Japanese records because of the quiet vinyl from the '70s onwards.
Taking Japanese records from the 1950s as a whole, it seems the record manufacturing process wasn't as sophisticated as in the US at that time. Just by looking at a Japanese LP and a US LP from then, one clearly looks better than the other. I don't think I've ever heard a Japanese record from that period that sounded as good as a US equivalent. However, British records from that time do sound great.
I used to sell guitars for a living and Japanese guitars from the 1950s were terrible. They soon caught up, though, to the point that their instruments were considered as good as many American ones. The same may have been true for record production.
Given the quieter vinyl, I have a slight preference for later Japanese pressings over other countries but, as you say, there will also be a difference in sound if you have good equipment. I don't have great equipment, and I have poor ears, both making it difficult for me to talk about all this with any real authority. Sorry for the long-winded answer but I think you'll see why it's a subject I stay away from in my videos. Thanks for your great comment.
All of that for 5000¥ ?! I'm very jelous 😮 You cannot buy that and in that condition all of them in my country for that kind of money... Amazing!
Funny one the 'I'll never walk alone'...flippy, real flippy. Italian 'Elvis is back' is a preciousss one ❤ And my copy of the king of rock and roll double (french with green labels) is not in cover as nm as that. Envy strikes back 😂
I didn't know about the bonus songs album!
Enjoy them all, thanks for showing off 😂 Cheers!
It's sad that there are almost no new younger Elvis fans in Japan. One positive for record collectors, though, is that used vinyl - especially later import pressings - can be found for reasonable prices.
@@ElvisPresleyInJapan sad indeed! Next time there I could start a trend (I wish) 😂
But really, I thought they used to love him. What would be the main reason for the decreasing exposure to Elvis in time... Was the 'pass on the next generation' natural human behavior failing? Could it be it has something to do with ageism in japanese society? 🤔
Sorry, your comment made me think about the whys and hows...😅 I'm a curious type.
@@pcalcas I think it's because it's been a long time since he died. The Rolling Stones and The Beatles are still popular but some of their members are not only still alive but still making music.
All those albums for £27! Incredible. As you'll already have guessed the All time greatest is extremely rare as it is a Dutch pressing, the King Creole has the added value of the INTS sticker on the rear (German pressing imported to the UK) The King of Rock n Roll was originally a French Album and very hard to find as the black label German pressing. What a great haul. What are they all doing in Japan????
I thought I was lucky just getting nice pressings for great prices. Rare into the bargain? Even better. I'll have to try more 5,000-yen challenges. Thanks for the info!
Wow awesome finds David, you will not find those in Europe that cheap. I am currently in the process of completing both my German black label collection (1982-1989) and my green label RCA International UK releases 1980-1987) as these sound different and (mostly) superior to records released before. Especially I love the Boppin' Bob Jones mixes (and from his collegues like "Big Pete" by the London studio that provided remixes for RCA Ltd in the 80s), which to my ears are among the very best mixes on Elvis vinyl one could buy. It's funny, because these 80s releases often are of exceptional (sound) quality, yet people judge them to be budget releases. I have bought over 10 of these releases of each (black and green labels) over the last few weeks but still a long list to go.😂
I used to have a lot of Boppin' Bob records, growing up in England in the late '70s / early '80s. Many of them were mid-priced albums - great bargains considering many of them had been deleted for years. I didn't appreciate how good they sounded at the time. The German black releases came out just as I started spending my money on other artists but I'm enjoying building up a collection now.
Bob Jones' work on the 50's Elvis recordings is amazing... only Kevin Budd comes close.
Boppin' Bob. His reputation seems to be growing. I'll have to seek out some more of his work.
From memory the red presley album as some surprises wear my ring undubbed no guitar slapping......wonder of you different mix......always on my mind with original strings.....american trilogy this is elvis version .......best sounding love letters that i've ever heard.......moody blue and way down alternate mixes...suspicious minds no horns
and shorter
Nice one. I've only heard side 1 so far. I'll listen carefully to the other sides. Thanks for the info.
Wow you done well for £32 bud
Yes, I got lucky this time.
Hi David did you purchase them all in Japan
If I tried to purchase in UK
Would have been lot more than that
Ps was that inc postage
M
On this occasion, shipping was included. It can be expensive to send records in Japan, up to about five or six quid for one LP.