Grading In the Sunshine
SoulOnIce
13,027 Posts
I don't really get too hung up on checking conditon of records I'm paying fifty-cents for at a yard sale,but with the vinyl piled in almost every room of myhouse, I feel the need to be somewhat discriminating.So...many many records look beautiful and as-new out in thesunlight of some guy's front yard Saturday 10:00 AM, but when I get back home and check them indoors, they're rinked!Is this just me being lazy, or do others have this problem?Do I need to just look closer? I'll admit I am self-consciousenough that I don't feel comfortable holding some dude's 3-for-a-buckcopy of "Waiting for the Sun" up to my nose, squinting at the wax and running my thumb back and forth over the grooves...but I wish I could get a better read on these things, beforeI feed them to the monster.Ok, there's no point to this post, I'm just hiding from thesun, burnin' some and listening to crackly yard sale records...but still, anyone else have this problem? The sun-grading, notthe pointless-posting-while-stoned thing...
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tilt that wax son
an look at it trey or' four tymes
Yeah, I think it's mostly laziness, I'm flipping through piles
of cheap-ass records, see one I might want, slide it out all quick
and the sun hits it and reflects and it looks all glossy and I go
"good" and slide it back in, all in about 3 seconds.
"good sunlight" made me laugh.
It's like:
truth. ive struggled with that sunlight shit for years