I remember there are a couple other vinyl collectors on this site so I figured I'd share my story here.
My boss was moving and knew I collected vinyl records (currently smallish at just over 1000) so he asked if I wanted a couple crates of them. I said sure and went by his place today to pick them up. When I got there he said he tossed a couple out because they were in a box that got wet and I said no problem then loaded up the remaining couple hundred records he had. I knew he liked classic rock so I figured there would be some albums in there I would like. As I was driving home they smelled really badly and when I went to put them in my garage I noticed quite a few of them were moldy. I decided to put them out back so I could go through them. As I'm looking through them I find basically every quintessential classic rock album you could want. All the Zeppelins, The Doors, The Beatles, Pink Floyds, etc. As I'm pulling them out I notice every one of them is ruined.... Every single one. There is about 3 inches of mold on every record! Nooooo!. I've started pulling some of them out of the case to try and salvage the records with a good cleaning but every case is garbage
. To me most of the joy in having records is sifting through the album art and pulling the records out to listen to. If I don't feel like doing that I'd simply listen to my phone which has thousands of songs. So it's a sad day for me pulling out the records from the Beatles White album and just tossing the case in the garbage. Just thought I'd share.
My boss was moving and knew I collected vinyl records (currently smallish at just over 1000) so he asked if I wanted a couple crates of them. I said sure and went by his place today to pick them up. When I got there he said he tossed a couple out because they were in a box that got wet and I said no problem then loaded up the remaining couple hundred records he had. I knew he liked classic rock so I figured there would be some albums in there I would like. As I was driving home they smelled really badly and when I went to put them in my garage I noticed quite a few of them were moldy. I decided to put them out back so I could go through them. As I'm looking through them I find basically every quintessential classic rock album you could want. All the Zeppelins, The Doors, The Beatles, Pink Floyds, etc. As I'm pulling them out I notice every one of them is ruined.... Every single one. There is about 3 inches of mold on every record! Nooooo!. I've started pulling some of them out of the case to try and salvage the records with a good cleaning but every case is garbage
. To me most of the joy in having records is sifting through the album art and pulling the records out to listen to. If I don't feel like doing that I'd simply listen to my phone which has thousands of songs. So it's a sad day for me pulling out the records from the Beatles White album and just tossing the case in the garbage. Just thought I'd share.
