Ever Wonder How Records Got Scratched Up??

Rockadelic

SoulOnIce

I know this was a joke, but I do wonder
sometimes how records get so trashed. Like the
records in my radio station library, promo copies
that were sent to the station in 1970 and have sat there
for 35 years ... they'll be trashed! I'm like, "who was
doing WHAT to these records?" How much damage can you do
carrying it to the studio, playing it once or twice, and bringing
it back? What the hell were people doing to their records??

Rockadelic

I know this was a joke, but I do wonder
sometimes how records get so trashed. Like the
records in my radio station library, promo copies
that were sent to the station in 1970 and have sat there
for 35 years ... they'll be trashed! I'm like, "who was
doing WHAT to these records?" How much damage can you do
carrying it to the studio, playing it once or twice, and bringing
it back? What the hell were people doing to their records??

Trained Ice Skating Mice
Playing Frisbee At The Sandpaper Factory
Cleaning The Surface With Brillo
Tap Dancing Roaches
Stage For The Exacto Knife Olympics
Silverfish With Stiletto Heels
Previous Owner Needed Hand Lotion.....Badly

karlophone

I know this was a joke, but I do wonder
sometimes how records get so trashed. Like the
records in my radio station library, promo copies
that were sent to the station in 1970 and have sat there
for 35 years ... they'll be trashed! I'm like, "who was
doing WHAT to these records?" How much damage can you do
carrying it to the studio, playing it once or twice, and bringing
it back? What the hell were people doing to their records??

Secret_Chimp

I once had a copy of Hook and Sling that I think was used to spackle the side of a house. (this is back in my early digging days, when I bought anything cool no matter how fucked up it was.. side B played great, though, by the way)

Burns

you either find a collection that is babied, or you find the collection that has been racked across the front driveway, never no medium. but i still buyem

tjames

I was given an Ikettes record that was covered in what looked and smelled like gravy - I discovered the smell once I softened up the crust....?

Rockadelic

I was given an Ikettes record that was covered in what looked and smelled like gravy - I discovered the smell once I softened up the crust....?

Soul Gravy

aleit

unrelated to scratched records....

i passed on that shleu shleu lp at the austin show. funny that you picked it up, rich.
i'm a big fan of their late 60's and early to mid 70's work. great haitian compas group w/ some killer guitar work on some of their recordings.

that one looked too late for my tastes though.
the cover is pretty wicked though.

idiotproof

I hate when you go through some old fellas shop & find something cool amongst the crappy shop odour that seems to be a generic smell in odl dusty record stores. And you presuem only exits in that space.

Then you take it home & it smells of high rankin' cat piss.
The cover, the record, everything...

I bought about 80 2nd hand records in this dope little street full of 2nd hand music stores (cassette & vinyl) Jakarta.
Most of the covers were ratshitted, but I didn't realise that pretty much every record was tragically fucked up... Impossible to play out...

Seems like the humid weather wasn't vinyl's best friend.

Got some great cover images though... Dolt!

ako

most importantly, whats up with this record???