Vinyl Records In Shrink Wrap, Should You Keep Them Sealed? - Tasty Records Altrincham

[@stevehotspur]

Wonderful not many people can appreciate this

[@kabiam]

I doubt anyone in 84 would of thought of records as investment property. Remember before speculators and consumers stated jacking up valuations records had reached a low point in the 2000's. People were practically giving them away.

[@stevehotspur]

As someone who worked for Virgin and was responsible for shrink wrapping the records I would say that the mintness can’t always necessarily be guaranteed as there’s a remote chance that we might have played that actual record in the shop. Or it may have fallen out in the stock room. I’d say with similar reservations that a factory sealed record is more likely to be mint. It’s a tough grading decision and some might argue that no record can ever be described as mint, I’ve had this argument so many times.

[@budsmoker4201120]

I have never seen shrink wrapping off gassing. That is new to me. No warping is a very serious problem with new records and tight shrink wrap

[@budsmoker4201120]

But how to tell if they are new and have not been played. On the open packages

[@STEVEHEROLD]

without even watching a second of this just based on the title and artwork all i can say is…. YES. OPEN THEM. OF COURSE. OPEN THEM. I buy music to listen to, not to put on my shelf and stare at. I can’t believe this is even a question. Now I will watch your video and maybe eat my words (but I doubt it.)

[@Pluralofvinylisvinyls]

Yeah, one could always buy an open copy to listen to and one to archive. Nothing wrong with that.

[@greysuit17]

Wait what are we protecting the packaging? Or the vinyl? Is this a collector thing protecting the packaging?

[@tastyrecordsuk]

I suppose some collectors leave the sleeve in the shrink to protect this from any storage wear that can incur over time!

[@tastyclassics]

The shrink made me think

[@jaycoleman8062]

Unless it is very rare, spin that baby...

[@pinkfloyd.appreciation]

Keeping records in the original shrink would be a good idea in a perfect world, but the wrap wasn't intended to be kept on forever, a lot of records in shrink suffer plastic migration as do records in the old plastic outer sleeves that people used..polythene sleeves are best...