Catalogue picture discs and coloured vinyl

Future you will not remember whether the reissue was red, clear, or a picture disc. One line in the notes is enough, written when the record is in your hand. The album title will not store the colour for you.

Picture discs often play differently and sell differently from the black vinyl of the same album. Do not let a guide for the ordinary pressing stand in silently if you care about the distinction. Type your own price for that copy.

The saved sleeve should show the variant if a real image exists for the pressing you chose. If it does not, upload a photo of your copy. A picture of the black album on a picture-disc row is the wrong object.

If you own the black vinyl and the colour, they are two records. If you only want the colour, it stays on the wishlist until you buy it. Adding every variant you have seen in a shop will make the shelf a fantasy, and the value a fiction.

Select the pressing that matches when the catalogue offers it, so the guide has a chance of referring to that edition. If you added it by hand, the market price may not apply. A typed price, including what you paid, is the figure the total will use.

Add the pressing, write picture disc or the colour in the notes, and upload a photo if the saved sleeve does not show the variant. Condition still belongs in its own note. A scuffed picture disc is not a mint one.

The price guide does not look at the vinyl. It looks at the release you selected, or at the price you typed.