When you buy records in many second hand stores, they sometimes charge you per disc. So, when you arrive at the counter with your stack of records, they count all of it together, and make you a decent price. Usually you pay less than what you actually bring. 10 discs for 8 or something similar. It depends on the mood of the salesperson at the counter. On the weather, on the previous customer, the time of day. In other words, it is a bit random. Even if records are priced with little stickers this happens. Calculation is fuzzy that way.
As Discogs will tell you, this box contains four records. A box like this is not opened, as the number of discs is stated on the outside, a kind of selling argument. I got it for four euro, and it was the only record I bought that day. One euro per disc, right? Wrong. When I arrived home, curious about my new acquisition, instead of four records, there were five. And the weirdest thing about this is: the fifth record is another pressing of the fifth piano concerto. The catalogue number is different, but the performance, recording etc is all the same.
This makes me curious: what happened here? That fifth record is not coming from this set, the other records mention that they’re part of a set on the label. The spare one does not. Did the previous owner buy it earlier, and did he get rid of the sleeve and include it in this one out of convenience? Can the original owner send me an answer?