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Ever Wonder How Records Got Scratched Up??

RockadelicRockadelic Out Digging 13,993 Posts
edited April 2006 in Strut Central

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  • SoulOnIceSoulOnIce 13,027 Posts
    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??
  • RockadelicRockadelic Out Digging 13,993 Posts
    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
  • karlophonekarlophone 1,697 Posts
    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_ChimpSecret_Chimp 915 Posts
    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)
  • BurnsBurns 2,227 Posts
    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
  • tjamestjames 156 Posts
    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....?
  • RockadelicRockadelic Out Digging 13,993 Posts
    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
  • aleitaleit 1,915 Posts
    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.
  • idiotproofidiotproof 880 Posts
    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!
  • akoako https://soundcloud.com/a-ko 3,413 Posts

    most importantly, whats up with this record???
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