13th Floor Elevators "Slip Inside / Splash 1" bootleg?

[ShyC]

Hey there,

I bought this Elevators 45 a few years ago and I think it looks like a bootleg. The number in the deadwax isn't handwritten, the labels look a bit blurry, I don't know. Smells fishy. Does anyone know if these have been booted?

 

[legbarecords]

I've had a few copies of this record but I didn't pay much attention to the pressing. I don't think it's something anyone would take the trouble to boot but who knows?

 

[ShyC]

I thought that, too. Who would bother to boot that? So I felt ashamed of accusing the seller and put it in my "don't really know what to do with this"-box, where I found it yesterday. Pretty sure it's a bootleg, the printed deadwax number is 65805H2/A and I (think I) found out, both the original pressings have hand-etched numbers that are completely different.

 

[mansson66]

It's from the singles box set that was released a few years ago.

 

[ShyC]

Ahh, I see. Thanks mansson66!