dumb accidental shit you do to your records
noz
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my clumsy ass spilled pineapple juice on a stack of about 20 today. it was mostly 12"s, which weren't a problem. i just got em out and threw into other plain sleeves. but these took some work
gal was salvaged (thank god). but i think danger zone and free your mind might be added to the next missing sleeves thread. we'll see how they dry.
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trying to scrape off a piece of dirt with my fingernail and making a skip (i bite my nails, so they can be a little uneven)
when I was much younger I left my peachfuzz 12" in the sun...
wait that doesn't sound right
a-HA! Forget IKEA - the secret to record storage, revealed.
I step on records all the time in my room, although a recent reorganization has all but ended that habit.
I had a portable that would do this horrible thing where, at the end of the side, it would drag the needle back across the record, like gouge the vinyl...once my receiver blew and I only had the portable, so I would use it and "remember" to lift the needle before the side ran out...of course, I forgot to do that enough times to put some serious scratches in a few records...ugh.
I've done that once or twice.
The main thing I have done is had children. Not so much now, but when my son was 1 - 2 (and my collection much smaller, and located in crates on the floor) he used to sneak and pull them out and then end up dumping the records out of the sleeves and, of course, fondling them.
That was when I started reversing all my records so the inner sleeve pointed in toward the seam of the cover, and then the plastic sleeves open toward the top of the cover.
PM Reynaldo, he has like 18 copies of that record no joke.
Where are those damn pics
its unavoidable isn't it? kinda like when your a kid and had a wiggly tooth - you know if you touch it its going to hurt but you need to know how close it is to coming out.
Yup.
Edit: okay, the subject is "accidental shit". This is not accidental. This is deliberate record torture.
My cats are not alowed near my records.
I have done this a couple of times too.
a brand new miles davis blue note 10" in mint condition, I took it out to play it and dropped it. It slid along the table corner and gouged the entire B side. Before I ever got to even play it once. All I could do was just stand there and stare at it for like 2 minutes. It plays fine, but I never play it because it hurts too much to look at it.
Too many memories.
When I was back at my parents place I leaned my stacks up against a baseboard heater. Pops was cold, so he turned up the heat. Melted about 10 records, including Ann Peebles "Straight From the Heart".
Just the other day I returned from a long trip to find that somebody had spilled stain all over my records. Thankfully it didn't penetrated the plastic. Still, got some drips on Charles Kynard "Your Mama Don't Dance" and Don Hysear Walker's "Expressions".
Also recently put a scratch in Bonnie Dobson's "Good Morning Rain."
...but sometimes ending with the even less desirable needle on the dotted platter edge.