Rolling 2007 Vinyl Thread

Rubinoos - s/t (Wow at their version of I Think We're Alone Now!)
The DBs - Repercussion
T. Rex - Ride a White Swan
William de Vaughan - Be Thankful for What You've Got
Black Oak Arkansas - Raunch n Roll
Leprechaun Catering - Kumquats & Lychees

The Persuaders - Thin Line Between Love And Hate
Burt Bacharach - Reach Out
Kelis - Young Fresh 'N New / Daddy / The Spot 12''
Thelma Houston - Any Way You Like It
Mtume - Juicy Fruit
Herbie Hancock - Sunlight

i've been meaning to ask -- with records shelved properly at home, what is the point of those plastic baggies? they annoy me and get in the way, so i don't use them. it's not like i'm ever flipping through things super fast or cramming albums together.

can someone convince me of their worth?

What about STICKERZ? Are you a sticker-taker-offer? Sometimes they are hard to get off and I end up tearin' the cover.

Bought a copy of Sound of Impact last week, the Big Black semi-boot that Walls Have Ears put out way back when -- numbered, with booklet, woo hoo. Paid too much (c. $30), but I've always wanted a copy, and this is only the second or third I've seen since it came out.

Sounds great. A good deal better than Pigpile. But MAN! is Steve's between-song banter dorky. Clam it cheese, and play another song.

My local record store sell these really nice "hard" plastic covers that keeps the sleeves nice, and more importantly, keeps the corners from bending. No one likes a droopy sleeve corner.

Anyone seen a good vinyl print of Rush's "2112"?

wow Scott, I just found this on Monday! Pristine white label promo copy. Never heard any of it before, I like it much more than I was expecting given that my favorite is Echoes.

GHOST Hypnotic Underworld 2LP
GHOST Snuffbox Immanence LP

from the Drag City webstore. I knew they were OOP, so they either found some more or were repressed. Regardless, I bought them as soon as I could because I slept on them so long before.

(For 7-inches, though, I do keep protective outer baggies, oddly, and tend to distribute them among the records that deserve them most. Which yeah, is stupidly time-consuming sometimes. But 7-inch sleeves, tending toward paper, seem more worth protecting.)

I also hate plastic inner sleeves. Always have. Those get replaced with paper ones as soon as possible, preferably at the used record store via switching with other records before I head home.

A glance at my 10-inch shelf reveals that I own vinyl EPs by both Beaver and Dozer currently encased in outer plastic sleeves as well.

Oh, and I don't have much time for those outer sleeves that predominantly feature on newer limited edition style records. The ones with the super sticky flap. You have to really finesse the record back in. I have no finesse.

But what I really fucking hate are those super stiff plastic jobs with the tuck-in flap. Like those Table of the Elements twelves. ALWAYS break along the sides/bottom, smell like a chemical dump (which is kinda cool, I admit), and are crazy pain to open. Worst thing is, they're usually integral to the packaging, with fancy printing and ceteras, so it's hard to just toss 'em.

A record just goes in a cardboard sleeve, okay? Fucking design man finds some other object to ruin and make useless with his "ideas". Like maybe some Tyvek tableware, right? That'd be cool...

Okay, so the plastic inners. They're easy to hate, right? Crumple up into a wad in the corner, hard to get back in, cheep and grody. Fine.

But you know what really, REALLY sucks? It is the super-shiny, color-printed inner sleeves that are pinch-glued together along the edges. Like in the White Stripes' Elephant or Sonic Youth's Rather Ripped. They don't work. They don't fit. They fucking trap the record in, so you have to kinda wiggle it out. And they have super positive static capacity, so they're always attracting huge dirt clods and dragging them aross the wax. Die now, you suck fuck shit thing.

And I will not talk about teh plastic-lined paper sleeves that you can buy at Academy Records in Brooklyn, because then you will suspect how much of a super-geek I am. For realz.

WIRE 154 [4 Men With Beards]
MY BLOODY VALENTINE Isn't Anything [Plain]
EARTH Phase 3: Thrones & Dominions [Sub Pop]

In the mail:
GHOSTFACE KILLAH Supreme Clientele [Epic]
LUSH Split [4ad]

Certain musics are compatible with this feeling.

You're right, these are the best; they're sturdy, records slide easily in and out, they fit right in the outer sleeve, they protect the vinyl. But I only have a few of 'em. The plastic inner sleeve is the bain of my existence. It's a pet peeve of massive proportions.

also, you folks who don't use plastic covers are nuts. you must not play your albums very much. just sliding them in and out causes more damage (over time) to my covers than I can tolerate (especially on the bottom edge). At this point I have bags for every LP. And many of my older bags are all torn up on the bottom edge - that would have been the record cover without a bag!

And besides, when LP covers are split at the bottom, that's why God invented Scotch tape, right? (And the solution to playing any of your albums too much is easy: Buy more albums! Like, duh.) (Though to tell the truth, I actually don't think all that many of my LP covers are in all that much worse shape than when I bought them.)

oddly, i hate plastic outers but like the inners, even if they're confoundingly round shaped. it always seems like the inner plastic almost has an anti-static quality to it, perhaps just paper is more frictive.

Only 12-inch plastic outer baggie things I ever keep are for records.. where the sleeves are basically made of paper or detached flimsy cardboard

weird, i do this too. any silkscreened cover or folder type, like Pixeltan or 70's Dylan or Stones bootlegs, it's just paper so i throw it in plastic for support.

srsly you folks who don't use outer sleeves are just askin' for some drunk teenager to puke on your LPs

no one is puking on my privates.

you can leave the album outside the cover in a sleeve. record freaks do this so that they don't damage their covers. i do this when i send people records that they won from me on ebay. i have some records like that. but i do get a little nervous having a record out in the open like that. even in a sleeve. within a plastic sleeve. but i've got kids. and i'm a little messy. if i were rich and really anal, i'm sure i would have everything all perfect.

um, I meant that if you are (for example) using a wooden shelf for your records, when you slide a record back into the stack the PLASTIC is sliding across that possibly-less-than-smooth surface. As opposed to your cardboard record sleeve, leading to split seams and such.

I also carry records around a lot, to a radio station and DJ gigs, and this may explain my preference for bags. Never had anybody puke on one, but I have seen spilled drinks that would have been much worse w/o a bag.

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kool labels...

friend just tipped me off to this one.. awesome obscuro seventies prog/avant, seems to be all/mostly ripped from LP. lots of european stuff i've never heard of before.

OH MAN. so i was at a thrift shop in bangor, maine yesterday and they had 15-packs of 7 inches for 4 bucks. i only bought one cause i didn't have enough cash on me and they don't take card, but when i brought it home and opened it up i realized i got the following:

i fought the law/little annie lou - the bobby fuller four (!!!)
hurdy gurdy man/teen angel - donovan
loves me like a rock/learn how to fall - paul simon
superman/a man i loved - barbra streisand (ok this one kinda sucks)
for what it's worth/do i have to come right out and say it - buffalo springfield
my sweet lord/isn't it a pity - george harrison
there's a kind of hush/no milk today - herman's hermits
summer in the city/butchie's tune - the lovin' spoonful
small town woman/miss america - mark lindsay
hooray for hazel/need your love - tommy roe
la, la, la/time - bobby sherman
autumn rhapsody/cry - ronnie dove
walk away renee/i haven't got the nerve - the left banke
the night they drove old dixie down/when time is stolen - joan baez
draggin' the line/bits and pieces - tommy james and the shondells (!!!)

however, when i went back today to buy the rest of them SOMEONE HAD ALREADY GOTTEN THEM. so mad! kicking myself for not making my friend drive me to the ATM to get more cash! 4 bucks!