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Even 'first pressings' can get complicated... I've got the first two pressings of the first MC5 LP but I know there was even a third pressing that year even tho' the record sold very little and went straight to the cutout bins... The record business is weird...
Same with Raw Power by The Stooges, very few copies of the first UK pressing exist so most think the second pressing is the first pressing... Again, that sold about twenty copies when it came out... I don't know about dance music... A lot of my old soul 45s come in varying label designs, some even have a different artist name on them even tho' they're the same record... Excuse my rambling, pseudoephedrine... 👅💊
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I’ve always thought it was the 1st pressing side of it that was more important, i.e, fresh plates. In terms of dance music it’s usually the case that anything with a picture cover is a commercial press cashing in on the high sales of a record so value is lower as there’s a lot more copies around.