Rolling Stones Fans- I Need advice

Great information Jwong. Here's a question: I have two copies of this album. Both are stamped "COC 59100". One has the address at the bottom but only the one COC code, at the top. The other has the code at the top and the bottom, but no address; it has a copywrite warning instead. Both are inscribed "Rolling Stones Records" in the dead wax, but the one with the warning is a typeface inscription. The other is hand-inscribed. The typeface copy opens from the top and has a printing date--1971 with the "P" in a circle. The other opens from the side and has no printing date. One cost $100+. The other cost 99 cents. Which is the original? Are they both original but from different countries? Both sound excellent, with, maybe, a slightly better dynamic presentation in the typeface copy.

The hand inscribed copy is the original.

Thanks, Audiofeil. So is the other one a first edition, second printing, or a second printing? I think deciphering the matrix code is throwing me off.

The MFSL recording of Sticky Fingers is one of the best releases MFSL ever made. Just listen to Moonlight Mile and tell me you are not impressed. Its one of the earlier releases from MFSL so there is a good chance Stan Ricker did the cutting.

I agree totally with Audiofeil on this one, the MFSL version is one of the worst sounding and over rated lp's I've ever been duped into buying. The worst aspect of it is the absurdly low level at which it was cut, resulting in needless problems with surface noise. Even with a well cleaned, mint copy, you're always aware of a too high noise floor. There's no end of buyers who lust after MFSL recordings regardless of merit, so it was no problem to resell. The best sounding version I've found (not having heard the original release previously mentioned) is the English Virgin reissue. In any event, I've never heard any "classic" Stones release in any format that was sonically notable.