BEST album you own that is TRASHED
SoulOnIce
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I'm sure many of you are like me, and can't resist grabbing that raer for only $3.00, even though you can see that someone spent the bulk of an 8-year cocaine habit cutting rails on the surface of the vinyl...I know it's painful, but share your raerest G+ LP's...I'll name two: 
I copped this at a record fair last winter, in a box of $2 records...white label promo OG on Eastbound, one of the only times in life I ever let out a genuinely frightening cackle of triumph as I pulled a record, like "AHAAAGGH!!" Unfortunately, the laugh was on me, because once I was in my car and more closely inspecting things, I realized it was warped to a true bean-dip dish degree...I'm holding onto it until I get the nerve to try the "2-plates-of-glass" warp repair method... 
This one I could see was rinked, but for $2, I wasn't gonna let it slip away...I don't think it actually skips at any point, but there isn't a point in listening to it that it doesn't sound like ice skates on concrete...still, I play it all the time, and it will do until I luck into another cheap clean copy, or win the lottery and start buying all the $100 records I want...What you got?
I copped this at a record fair last winter, in a box of $2 records...white label promo OG on Eastbound, one of the only times in life I ever let out a genuinely frightening cackle of triumph as I pulled a record, like "AHAAAGGH!!" Unfortunately, the laugh was on me, because once I was in my car and more closely inspecting things, I realized it was warped to a true bean-dip dish degree...I'm holding onto it until I get the nerve to try the "2-plates-of-glass" warp repair method... This one I could see was rinked, but for $2, I wasn't gonna let it slip away...I don't think it actually skips at any point, but there isn't a point in listening to it that it doesn't sound like ice skates on concrete...still, I play it all the time, and it will do until I luck into another cheap clean copy, or win the lottery and start buying all the $100 records I want...What you got?
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Sentimental favorite...thrifted this as a teenager in the 1980's. Fucked up, but surprisingly playable. And it's still got the yellow innersleeve!
This Five Keys album on the Aladdin label[/b]
1950's doo-wop heat that I just picked up for $2 this summer. I won't be spinning this one often - it skips something terrible - but it is what it is, and collectable as all hell, so I'm holding on to it.
I'll trade you my warped Donald Austin for it...
Ha, ha, yeah! It probably didn't have the drawing of the drumsticks hitting the snare, did it? I'm assuming it just had the label name in block letters on a red background (like this Big Mama Thornton LP on Back Beat that I have)...
I know - I had seen the MCA reissue of Two Steps From The Blues so many times that I was shocked when I found out it had a full-color cover (MCA reprinted the photo in straight-up black-and-white).
Just so this doesn't look like a thread hijack, I may as well mention the messed-up copy I have of A Christmas Gift For You on Philles Records (a/k/a "the Phil Spector Xmas album"). I already had a clean Rhino reissue from the eighties, with the same cover design, but there sat the OG in a thrift store, beat to hell, so I just figured "why the hell not?"
I got this at the local swap meet a few years back, the cover has major split seam, plays with an audible noise about half of the record, probably skips more than a couple of times.
this one doesn't
:/
The cover on mine looks like someone took a shit on it and then tossed it in a woodchipper, but the vinyl play okay for the most part.
DJ Ferrari
Has some crazy marks that I have no idea how they were made. Doesn't skip but sounds staticky threw most of record. Not to mention the top is almost coming off on the cover and the bottom has a 4 inch split.
as I recall, the LP is pretty OK but the cover is in like 7 pieces.
I also picked up a trashed copy of "For Your Love" for 48 cents once...
but it plays great.
its a solid g+
Well what can u expect. I droped ~$2 on it...
is this a US issue? I have never seen this cover. CLASSIC SHIT!
scratched and fuzzy all the way to heaven and back - but still so good.
Id buy it for the cover alone. MEAN MUGGIN!!
Found this a couple weeks ago but it's pretty scratched up. Not sure why there's tape on the cover as the seams are otherwise clean/unsplit.
But this is the best trashed record I own:
Unknown surf/garage LP on a Nebraska record label from 1964. Currently the only known copy but it's marked up and has extensive writing on the blank back cover. Luckily it plays through without skipping.
Mine has H2O damage & an edge warp, but it plays fine. Was about $149.01 less than "the market value" though. But yeah, that's about the raerest thing I have in sketchy condition.
If you don't have it, the 2 LP "Real Pretty" set on Rare Earth is a nice budget holdover until the real thing comes along. Both "SF Sorrow" and "Parachute" LP's in the official order.
This is how I want to get my OG of "SF Sorrow:"