‘Major labels are trying to scoop up everything’: the chaotic future for indie music companies – and why vinyl isn’t working
Not surprising, but the Olivia IVC release sold out fairly quickly today. Now we can play the game where we guess how many of her fans don’t realize it’s a subscription and complain about getting charged for an AFI record next month.
Todays pickups: Mastodon - Crack the Skye Stereolab - Dots and Loops (Plus a Helmet - Betty CD for good measure)
records without outer sleeves and comics without bag and board just feels wrong. those are my babies.
My collection is about 1/3 sleeved, 1/3 unsleeved, and 1/3 cut open on the side with the wrapper still attached. I'm terribly inconsistent.
I’m a sleeves guy 100%. Part of the physical media thing to me is the ritual. I like the extra intentionality of sleeves, both inner and outer.
I hate that i can't read the spines really well. When I got a piece of nice furniture to house the collection, it was more apparent that the aesthetics were better without. I use them for my old, frail covers, but almost all of my gatefolds are free now.
I took all my outer sleeves off years ago because I couldn't read the spines (minus a couple foldover jackets that didn't have spines anyway).
All my records are sleeved. The records are stored in rice paper sleeves outside of the record but inside of the outer sleeve for easy accessibility and the ability to see the color of the record when I pull them out.
I like to live dangerously. A bunch of my records have seam splits from shipping which to me is way more annoying that a little shelf wear.
sleeved all my records a handful of years ago, and haven't looked back. some record sleeves have some cosmetic shelf wear that i really wish i worked to combat back in the day.