Venezuela, the last album I could afford was Daft Punk's RAM a month or so after it came out. Now musix it's just a luxury that cant be bought. Nor that it would be available to buy in my local store anyways.

I could make an spotify account and listen with a vpn but it wouldnt be the experience that I want, which is to listen without any interruption.

Everything was so piece mealed during those sessions many of the outtakes are just over dubs and instrumentals. Some really cool stuff is there. Lennon's vocal takes on Strawberry and Lucy are so raw and natural compared to their augmented states on Pepper.

the lucy in the sky with diamonds mix sounds amazing

The stereo remasters from 2009 were utterly pointless - they were always poor, why they bothered is beyond me.

Probably because you were familiar with the song in E, now its in F. The original mono versión(or is it the Stereo?) of the song was in F so they rised the pitch to match that one. I read that on reddit.

I get your point, it's just that for a predominant headphone user like myself, the way the vocals were channelled down one ear and the instruments on the other was jarring and totally sapped the energy from the songs. I was hoping it was going to be surround sound. Okay, I'm older now to realise that would have been a remix rather than remaster but even George Martin said the stereos were merely an afterthought.

That goes to to my second paragraph. That issue is because of the way the original albums were recorded. Abbey Road was the first of their albums recorded in true stereo with only Let It Be left. The Black Box remasters are fine in respect to the harsh panning once you hit BFS, which is when they started remastering off of the 1987 CD masters. Im also predominantly a headphone user, the hard vocal panning doesn't exist from BFS onwards (and Im listening to it as I reply to this). Its excruciating on the first two though.

I dont even know if its possible to put the early albums in "surround sound", at least not until Help when they learned about overdubbing and started experimenting, isolating things off of 2 track masters is unknown territory.

In my iTunes, I have the first 2 records from the white box and the rest are all the 09 stereo black box remasters. Sickeningly, Past Masters is a mix of both, i.e. I have the stereo version of Ballad of John and Yoko, but the mono mix of Bad Boy.

If its that bothersome, get the Mono remasters which are fantastic in their own right. That was the original artist intent in the first place up until Abbey Road. Stereo didn't matter until about 1968 because hifis were so expensive. There are some differences when you side by side some of the later records especially if you're used to the 1987 CD transfers which are all fake stereo.

i listened to my original pressing of sgt. peppers yesterday , on vinyl. played at extreme high volume, sounded awesome.

now get off my lawn!

Aside from admitting to himself that it was a grave error to not put Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane on the album, George Martin's judgement was always perfect. What even seem like small details like the hum or the piano chord turned out to be significant.