badly badly scratched records
The_Hook_Up
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how in the hell do records get this way...I mean just demolished, so scratched they are grey...some dude just brought in about 700 records, a good third of them were solid heat(or least records that would sell quickly) Roy Ayres, Blue Notes, Impulses, black label Kings, old Kool and the Gang, lots of good, sellable $20-$50 pieces, IF THEY WERENT DESTROYED. I mean, I have records I bought when I was 11 years old, and I didnt know how to take care of records then, and those records arent beat to shit like these. I just dont how records get that messed up. Gave him $40 for about 70 LPs I think I can salvage, that were just dirty as hell, not scrathed up...but goddamn, even if you never ever put the record back in the jacket and ashed your cigs on them they wouldnt have been destroyed like this...just sayin'...
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Or playing records on a band saw, that will do it every time.
Instead of placing them naked on the floor, you might want to try leaving your records in the sleeves when repainting the family room white. Taking the records out of the room altogether might be an even wiser idea!
But anyway, I've found loads like that, and to make it worse, some of the sleeves are VG++ in shrink! The mind boggles.
Do you find that this is most problematic when dealing with Erykah Badu, Marvin Gaye, Bauhaus, and Morbid Angel records?
i have done this WAY too many times DJing in bar/lounges and using a candle as a light source... hot water will usually get it out...
+ walking on them,
where i use to work many raers met this fate,
dudes were just stupid, respect the play box & the stock
bitches
shangri la would be a place with nice clean racked records
paradise on madison
YAH
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That cannot possibly be true.
Stack them up 5 at a time. Play them non stop for a week, just flip the stack over when you have heard side a and listen to 5 side bs. Make sure the turntable is on a wobbly table with one leg on a loose floor board. Invite your friends over to dance them. When everyone is danced out put the records on the coffee table and repeat with 5 late night grooves as your friends use the first five as coasters and ashtrays. Put them away for 30 years.
Take them to your local record store. Be sure to tell the buyer that they are all mint because "they have not been played for 30 years". Be sure to ask "do they have to be in the covers?"
If this sounds farfetched to you, you have never been to an old school dance party or worked in a record store.
Remove the record and place on any good gravel surface.
Get a bike.
Ride the bike over the record at a moderate speed and apply the back brake when it comes into contact with it.
You should hear a very expensive sound as your bike literally drags the record a yard or two over the gravel......
Pretty much. One of the most flagrant examples, though, is my Lord of the Rings 4LP box set read by Mr. Tolkein. Someone clearly put a big fat scented candle right on top of the box and let it burn until all 4 discs had been listened to.
I'm pricing some of these right now.
that midnighters has a gangsta ass cover, I didnt get chance to listen to it...it looked in ok shape..does it play ok?
Deep fried rice crispies treats!
And the Eddie Kendricks looks like this...
I was the only one working when those records came in and there were 8 customers asking me a bazillion questions, the phone was ringing off the hook and that goddamn dude whose wife makes those bags/purses out of the jackets kept asking "what can you do for me one these?", so I didnt really get chance to look at them closely, but put it this way...just imagine the what the joints I passed on looked like.