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http://www.instructables.com/id/Bring-Ruined-Records-Back-to-Life/

I saw that, but using sandpaper, have you tried it?

no. i haven't.

I'm really bummed out guys. A record was offered up for sale, a record that's my #1 lounge want, and I've been looking for it for more than 9 years. I missed the last time it sold in 2006. Anyway I was the first person to ask for the record and I was so happy, words fail to explain just how happy I was to finally have this record. I had asked him to hold the record and after an hour passed, I was about to pay when I got a message from the seller that he had received other offers on the record to out buy my hold on it and he now wants to put it on ebay. I keep hearing a stupid sad trombone in head.

nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

I had even posted that I wanted this record a few weeks ago, but I got no replies. Maybe I should've have done that. Really turned off to spend much time on that website now.

that is super fucked, especially given how generously you sell/give away shit there

got one of my turntables fixed after years of it annoying me (used to be manageable and if you just fiddled with it it worked fine, but lately got worse). no more short in the RCA. no more hum. thanks for the recommendation of MTZ ian.

Has anyone else seen LPs for sale at Whole Foods? It seems like an eye-rollingly bad move to get some hipster cachet, but maybe any instance of vinyl in the public eye is good. The store near me has about 4 bins and a stand-up display rack worth, and consists of classic re-issues and current releases, and a sign there indicates a few other stores in the LA area carries it.

we covered that on the vinyl in the news thread.

Ah, I'm new to ILV.

wait, jacob, this was on waxidermy? NAME NAMES AND WE'LL KILL HIM.

Ha! I sent him a message late last night about how sad I was and he made good with a nice and sincere apology. We're working out a trade or cash.

There is a youtube video where this guy shows like eight different ways to repair scratches and other imperfections in records. I was in awe at how thorough he is. When I get my Internet hooked up I'll find it and post it here.

That would be great!!

The guy who never called me from the store (the one i was complaining about upthread) elbowed me in the chin at the Goblin show last night. That guy cannot recognize faces, apparently.

i hope you kicked him in the shins.

I'm waiting for the right moment, maybe the third strike, then I will remind him.

haaaaa

so what's up with shrink wrap

always remove?

I have always kept it on mostly but now I've found a couple of records in my shelves where it may have pulled on the outer sleeve and bent it ... or made the edges wavy ... thinking bout going through and removing it all ...

I always keep it on, unless there's any discoloration starting underneath the shrink, like mold.

I always remove it, conventional wisdom as I heard it was that it can warp the records/jackets.

Isn't that more dependent on how you store your records than the shrink?

ive had situations happen where shrink did and did not contribute to a record or sleeve that did or did not warp, and storage has and has not been the actual cause of different instances.

in short, no general rule. i generally think of shrink as a positive thing, but i think of flat non-moldy jacket and record as much much better things.

I consider finding a record still in shrink an upgrade. I'm usually willing to pay a little more for a record in shrink. I've also watch two copies of the same record end on ebay and the one in shrink sold for considerably more, even though the one without it was in excellent condition.

huh. so no consensus. I always considered it extra protection and kept it on but I just found a couple in my shelves that it seems like this happened to ---> conventional wisdom as I heard it was that it can warp the records/jackets

I guess I will keep on keepin' it on unless I see any evidence of warping on that specific record

actually I don't think I've ever seen warping on a record from the shrinkwrap. just on some jackets.

if its too tight around the cover it can cause damage over time.

sometimes i take shrink off in the store just so people can see the covers better. like, nice covers and the shrink is kinda wrinkly or torn.

also, yeah, if a record has been subjected to heat the shrink can obviously damage it. other than that, its fine to leave it on.

note: do not store a boxes of shrinkwrapped lps in your attic for over 15 years. :\

i mean "do not store boxes"

Home turf

Penn Jillette makes stop in Greenfield and is glad he did

By DAVID RAINVILLE Recorder Staff

GREENFIELD — “When I came back to town, I didn’t realize Greenfield had turned into Brooklyn.”

Penn Jillette, internationally known comedian, author and illusionist, returned to his hometown of Greenfield Thursday night, and spent Friday walking around town before speaking at Greenfield Community College.

“When I last left Greenfield, it was a depressing, dead factory town,” he admitted.

He was impressed by all the changes that happened while he was away.

“Now, the old Clark’s Sport Shop has turned into a great performance place; it’s a club I’d love to play,” said Jillette. He was referring to the Arts Block, at Main Street and Court Square. If he had more time in town, he said, he’d try to take in a show.

In 2007, Jillette went on national television, saying that a Walmart was just the thing Greenfield needed. The town was featured on former Showtime series, “Penn & Teller: Bulls**t!” in an episode that focused on small towns’ resistance to the retail giant. On the show, Jillette lampooned Al Norman, nicknamed the “sprawlbuster” for his anti-Walmart agenda.

Jillette has since changed his mind.

“The way Greenfield looks now, I think we might have been on the wrong side of that one,” he admitted.

He couldn’t believe that the sleepy town he’d left now sports two Thai restaurants, a revamped Bank Row block and a used record store.

Jillette said he spent $200 at John Doe Jr. Used Records, buying new copies of old favorites, from stand-up comedy albums to old “dirty party records” from the 1960s.

His appearance at GCC was one of a handful of speaking engagements to promote his 2012 book, “Every Day is an Atheist Holiday,” which was recently released in paperback.

Jillette was also taken aback with the venue. Since he’d last seen the community college, it’s undergone major renovations.

“It used to be a depressing idea of a community college, a place I wouldn’t go. Now, I’m sitting here and enjoying it.”

Jillette sat in a cushy chair in front of the southern-facing, allglass wall of the upstairs library, watching the sun go down on what he said must have been “the most beautiful day of 2013.”

“Sitting here, I can’t imaging why I ever wanted to leave Greenfield.”

It was a matter of opportunity, or lack thereof, that made Jillette strap a few belongings to his back and set out on the open road, to make a go of show business. He said he knew he wasn’t going to get his big break in Franklin County.

this is a really boring question: what glue is the best glue to reglue your unglued record sleeves with? or should you not do such a thing?

obviously i'm only asking this cos i've run out of sellotape

I've always used the glue sticks that you rub on. Holds fine and leaves no trace.

I've used Aleene's Tacky Glue. I think it can be found at any craft/art supplies store. Worked great, even on a fateful sleeve.

So was Penn cool?

is anyone else surprised/confused/delighted that light in the attic is reissuing the dead's "one from the vault"?

yah, a little.

I've always been a 2 from the Vault kinda guy but the buoyancy of this 8/14/75 gig is grooving me as the work day draws to a close.

psyched to be seeing Mary Lattimore (thx pete!) tonight!

ohh cool! i have yet to see her perform. tell us how it is!

$5! at MIT!

she was really good. there were 50 people there, tops, in a theatre w/ a great sound system and acoustics. arty film backdrop.

if i was to offer advice to Mary, i'd say, "Mary, the harp is an amazing instrument, and you're a great harpist. Why must you feed it through that electronic gadget so so so so much? Let us revel more in the fantastic, unprocessed harp splendor. It is wonderful."

ian my man, if I sent you an MP3 rip of my copy of Homegas, could u listen and tell me if it is suffering from an off-center spindle hole? The needle sure sways from side to side a LOT when it is playing, but the rec is so weird sounding and unfamiliar to me that I can't tell if it's "supposed" to sound the way it does.

i can try, sleeve!

I saw pictures of this guy's collection on YouTube - including his NICE copy of SKINS by Les Baxter. Wondering if I should kill myself. He has LPs like "British Novelists Somethingorother".

I should off myself knowing I can't make a cup of tea, sit by the window at night and listen to this stuff.

http://youtu.be/4NkdE3Os_3E

At least -I- have a ProJect III to listen to my peed-on (but still priceless) copy of The Happy Moog on.

I was thinking about the records of JacobSanders last week when I was at this restaurant
http://i.imgur.com/HFPLzz7.jpg