Solid State Survivor (1979)

Alfa ALR-6022, Japan, 1979 Yellow Magic Orchestra's second album shows how much the obi matters for dating a copy. The first version, released September 25, 1979, is pressed on translucent yellow vinyl with red labels and has a red obi that mentions the yellow vinyl. Every later version is on standard black vinyl, and the third came with a yellow obi instead. All of them shipped with a printed inner sleeve, at ¥2,500. A yellow-vinyl copy with its red obi is the first issue complete; the black-vinyl copies are the cheaper way to hear it.