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how to tell on first pressing vinyl releases

I started some flea market and ebay searches and am perplexed on how to tell if an album is a first pressing release or a later release.

Also are less than 180 gram re-releases decent quality (think jazz reissues in the $10-15 range from Acoustic Sounds)

I did luck out on a two eye Brubeck Time Out and what appear to be first issue Jose Feliciano and Joni Mitchell discs.

thanks
Tom
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Record weight for reissues is 99% marketing hype rather than any indication of quality. True, vinyl in the 50's was much heavier than the flimsy stuff that got produced in the 70's and 80's but there is much more involved in determining the quality of an LP pressing than the thickness of the vinyl.
(I have plenty of flimsy 70's original issues that are every bit as good as some 200g reissues)
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