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  Artist: The Police Title: Ghost In The Machine Label: A&M Format: 8 Track Cat #: 8T 3730 Year of Release: 1981 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1981 white shell Listed Condition: VG/G  Sell Date: 4/29/25 Sell Price: $9.30 Discogs Last Sold: 11/23/22 VG+/VG+ $6.00 Low: $5.00 Median: $9.65 Average: $9.69 High: $14.00 Current low price: $12.47 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 2 Have/Want: 72/155 Where Sold: Richmond, VA Time it took to sell: 1 month Where and When Bought:  Ebay lot Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A- Sad To See It Go: No Named after a 1967 book by Arthur Koestler about philosophical psychology, the 4th Police album, Ghost In The Machine, overall was a solid hit laden record.  It peaked at #2 on Billboard on a 109 week chart run.  It came to the world in October 1981, almost exactly a year after Zenyatta Mondatta.  At this point they were still getting successively bigger, this one has hit the 3 million triple Platinum mark in the US to date...

  Artist: The Police Title: Zenyatta Mondatta Label: A&M Records Format: LP Cat #: SP 4831 Year of Release: 1980 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1981 Listed Condition: VG+/G  water stained, peel off center of cover Sell Date: 4/4/25 Sell Price: $5.69 Discogs Last Sold: 4/4/25 NM/VG+ $19.45 Low: $2.99 Median: $9.50 Average: $11.11 High: $25.00 Current low price: $1.00 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 67 Have/Want: 3198/399 Where Sold: Springvale, ME Time it took to sell: 10 years Where and When Bought:  Worcester, MA used $3.99 at Al Bums Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A- Sad To See It Go: No Zenyatta Mondatta was a band invented phrase.  The meaning was a hybrid of "Zen," "Jomo Kenyatta" and the French word for world, "Le Monde."  There seems to be an element of fun here before Sting got a little too serious.    Is it any wonder that a top ten hit from the album was "De Doo Doo Doo De Da Da Da?"  The video on the snowy hill makes them seem do...

  Artist: The Police Title:  Synchronicity Label: A&M Format: LP Cat #: SP-3735 Year of Release: 1983 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1983 Blue/Red/Yellow front cover Listed Condition: VG+/G+ water stain on cover and inner sleeve Sell Date: 6/27/21 Sell Price: $9.99 Discogs Last Sold: 6/12/21 VG+/VG $7.00 Low: $4.99 Median: $7.96 Average: $11.23 High:$27.38 VG+/VG+    Current low price: $3.00 F/VG, $8.00 VG/VG+ Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 14 Have/Want: 643/208 Where Sold: New Orleans, LA Time it took to sell: 5 years Where and When Bought: Worcester Al Bums new upon release Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A Sad To See It Go: No Despite the un listenability  of side 2 and it's ponderous triad of mega-hits ("Every Breath You Take" into "King of Pain" into "Wrapped Around Your Finger"), the surrounding tracks make for an excellent album and if I was able to only hear those hits a half dozen times in the l...