Removing ugly stickers from your precious vinyl sleeves

[Pim]

3 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

€100!! Time to offload mine

You don't like it"?

[soulpope]

11 minutes ago, Pim said:

Well soon I've I just ordered a copy of Charles Tylers 'Saga of the Outlaws'. In great condition but the sleeve is full of ugly library stickers. That's why I only paid 35 euros where EU based copies on Discogs go for 100 euro plus.

An outstanding platter having an high price tag (and not only because rarity) .... a pity you have to swallow this price increase though ....

[Pim]

Well there we go. Of course there is a little decolorization and residue visible but it looks pretty damn good. And most importantly: the vinyl itself is in absolute mint condition! So I conclude: for 35 euros, I made a pretty sweet deal. (That doesn’t happen to me too often…)

Edited Tuesday at 09:31 PM by Pim

[mjazzg]

14 minutes ago, Pim said:

Well there we go. Of course there is a little decolorization and residue visible but it looks pretty damn good. And most importantly: the vinyl itself is in absolute mint condition! So I conclude: for 35 euros, I made a pretty sweet deal. (That doesn’t happen to me too often…)

Nice one.

When I was a music librarian I used to put lots of stickers and barcodes on sleeves and labels just like that.  I also saw how the public used or misused the LPs so I think you're definitely lucky if that came from a public library. Or Charles Tyler just wasn't popular...

 

On 12/16/2024 at 10:24 AM, Pim said:

You don't like it"?

I haven't listened to it in ages, maybe I should

[Big Beat Steve]

Re- ex-library vinyls and their fate in the hands of library users, they are indeed likely to have been (ab)used a lot.

But there are exceptions, like in Pim's case.
At the recent annual clearout sale of ou local #1 secondhand record shop I picked up an ex-library copy of Vol. 1 ("Post-War Dance bands") of the "Polish Jazz 1946-1956" series (on Polskie Nagrania) from the 70s. I seemed to remember this one was still missing in my collection so at 1 EUR apiece you can take chances.
As it turned out I do already have it so it went into a "spare items" corner. The vinyl really looks very, very clean and free from scratches and scuffs (maybe the sticker glued (again ...) to one of the labels helped as it says "Clean with antistatic cloth before use. Damaged records will have to be paid for in full"). Yet I cannot really see myself putting this up at fleamarkets to finicky punters who complain and whine about anything even if you price your items nicely. This LP had been part of the stocks of a "Scientific Library" in East Germany (long before the fall of the Iron Curtain) and the front cover is adorned with the "older generation" of library stickers - nothing attached with clear tape that might peel off but everything on paper and glued on for eternity: library catalog register number on thick paper, another paper sheet where a date is stamped on each time the item is borrowed from the library, and then another glued-on sticker that officially states the item was removed from the library stocks in 1990. One day I will continue peeling these stickers, though ...

 

[Pim]

16 hours ago, mjazzg said:

Nice one.

When I was a music librarian I used to put lots of stickers and barcodes on sleeves and labels just like that.  I also saw how the public used or misused the LPs so I think you're definitely lucky if that came from a public library. Or Charles Tyler just wasn't popular...

 

I haven't listened to it in ages, maybe I should

Yeah I could imagine that. I’ve seen how the average customer treats books in libraries…. I was surprised by the condition of this one. It’s not even NM, it’s M. As you say Tyler probably wasn’t very popular and not rented out a lot.