Great Records I Have Vandalised

[Viva Chiba]

%^*%^*^*&^&*^&*(^&*$^, I am under a real cloud today. Was spinning my mintish copy of "I Still Love You Alice B Toklas" - which I had been really enjoying last week - when the needle slipped off the trail-off groove and onto the label. In my hastle to swipe the stylus off, I etched a millimeter thin scratch on the first (and in my opinion probably best) track. FUCK I hate it when that happens. It's now slightly clicky. . . Now I'm going to have to look for a mint copy and probably end up spending more than was neccessary. . . .arrrrrrrrgh. It's such a nice record too.

Even more catastrophic than when I dropped my mint Peter Thomas - Orion 2000 and gave it some nice surface marks. ^*&^%%%$%%£$%^^&&$.

People like me should be made to buy CD's *sob*

[effi_deep]

now you can put it right to the f**** up framus five copy i've sent you

[Viva Chiba]

[effi_deep]

sorry...

[Hadrian Elephant]

I etched an audible scratch into the edge of my Walter Jackson 'Let Me Come Back' single by placing it onto the turntable too hastily and slipping it under the metal centre

Luckily the click stops just before the intro

[babycart]

My Grant Green 'Alive' fell out of its sleeve onto the floor a dark DJ booth once and I spent the entire evening subjecting it to dodgy Northern soul footwork before realising. It looked like a well-used sanding disc when I found it.
the horror... the horror

[Mr Muench]

Once dropped an alarm clock on an Ice T LP and punched a nice 10p sized hole through it. Also once bought a Dj Vadim 12" and on the way home i made the mistake of reading the back whilst i was walking and the vinyl slipped out and smashed on the floor .... I know they are not valuble or rare records but it pissed me off just the same.

[eric-adams]

i dropped my rarest hendrix lp out of its sleeve onto the metal corner of my chair and managed to smash into 5 peices!
then borrowed a rare japanese grindcore 7" from my brother and did the exact same thing. so i hid it at the back of the collection and didnt tell him.

[john stapleton]

While deep in conversation with George from Big Daddy and Dante Carfagna, taking a Mod-Art 45 off the deck a little too enthusiastically and snapping it in half. Cue appalled looks all round.

[highland cow]

While deep in conversation with George from Big Daddy and Dante Carfagna, taking a Mod-Art 45 off the deck a little too enthusiastically and snapping it in half. Cue appalled looks all round.

Awesome!

You should have pretended It's the new thing. One step more extreme than the cover up is THE SMASH UP.

I Will be playing these records only ONCE!!

[bodger]

I played a really s**t party once (felt v.unappreciated for all the work and hastle put in to doing it) and pulled my Main Street lp out some weeks later to find a huge blim burn on one side - I don't even smoke!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Probably worse though is playing out and finding select choice 12"s no longer exist in your possession?!?!?!?!? Uptown - Dope on Plastic in my case... Luckily this has not often happened (that I know of anyway...)

[Col Wolfe]

It's part of owning records for me and I expect to twat them up - especially DJing. If I didn't want to twat them up I would store them in a dark humidity controlled container in sealed acid-free laminates so I may as well not own them in the first place. In fact, I don't particularly like minters - they don't feel 'earthy' enough. I much prefer to live in a world of VG+/-. Yes.

[Sie-Fly]

i am also to be find in the world of vg+ / - ........col...see you in there mate !!

[Sunforest]

Following an altercation with my wife some years ago, I found several copies of Original Beatles LP's and 45's out of their sleeves and the sleeves transformed into what can only be described as the makings of Papier Mache.

I've since learn't to adopt a subservient role...and now enjoy family life!

[Lady J]

When I was a little girl I went to Sheringham for a day trip and the Woolworths there. I bought Talking In Your Sleep by Bucks Fizz and, when at the beach later, I was looking at it in a careless fashion and it fell out of the sleeve and onto the rocks. Didn't break but there were lots of scratches on the B side. I cried. And, thinking about it, that early trauma probably made me the saddo with looking after records that I am today.

[djr]

A number of years ago I found a copy of the Thors Hammer 45 that was released in the US on Columbia. I had it in a plastic bag and to hold onto it while I was digging through some other vendor's boxes, I had it placed under my arm. It slipped at some point, and I stopped it from hitting the ground by catching it between my elbow and the side of my body. Well, it cracked half the 45.........luckily a found a demo of it a few months later for $4....

[nzshadow]

Im moving house, i put the box of records at the top of the stairs to take down next, i forget, grab another box and proceed to walk into the box of records, i ended up at the bottom of the stairs with a gash in my head surrounded by my precious records in broken pieces around me whilst my soon-to-be-ex flatmate stood at the top laughing his arse off.

[pokester]

While deep in conversation with George from Big Daddy and Dante Carfagna, taking a Mod-Art 45 off the deck a little too enthusiastically and snapping it in half. Cue appalled looks all round.

had just the same accident ( but I wasn't talking to anyone famous.....) snapped a eddie bo record ...

[beddoes]

Left my records on top of the car after a listening session at a friend's house. Destroyed my copy of LET MY PEOPLE COME -and, though I only ever really listened to one track, "Come in My Mouth," I was sad for forty-eight hours, off and on.

[Hadrian Elephant]

had just the same accident ( but I wasn't talking to anyone famous.....) snapped a eddie bo record ...

Was that due to a too tight metal centre?

I had that happen and was advised to steer clear of the technics middles as they are metric and 7" single holes are often imperial - thus leading to an incorrect fit and greater chance of the single getting wedged onto the middle and cracking when you pull it off.

Mind you that could be a load of old bollocks, so if that's the case take this post as an example of how gullible I can be.

[pokester]

Was that due to a too tight metal centre?

I had that happen and was advised to steer clear of the technics middles as they are metric and 7" single holes are often imperial - thus leading to an incorrect fit and greater chance of the single getting wedged onto the middle and cracking when you pull it off.

Mind you that could be a load of old bollocks, so if that's the case take this post as an example of how gullible I can be.

yes it's a techincs middle.... hmmm sounds plausible

[Rich Hero]

had just the same accident ( but I wasn't talking to anyone famous.....) snapped a eddie bo record ...

'Hook'n'Sling' or 'We're Doin' It (The Thang)'? (Or any of countless others? ).

Apart from Sun Ra's 'Night Of The Purple Moon' the only other worthy of mention is a nice minty 45 of Cal Tjader's 'Soul Sauce'. I dropped it onto a laminate floor and chipped the edge (badly enough to bite into the grooves).

[Belson]

Was that due to a too tight metal centre?

I had that happen and was advised to steer clear of the technics middles as they are metric and 7" single holes are often imperial - thus leading to an incorrect fit and greater chance of the single getting wedged onto the middle and cracking when you pull it off.

Mind you that could be a load of old bollocks, so if that's the case take this post as an example of how gullible I can be.

Simple rule of thumb when you've only got technics centres to work with. Put the record onto the slipmat first, and then place the centre onto the spindle. Once said tuneage is finished having removed the needle, remove the centre first, then the record.

No more snappy snappy.

Oh and mine was getting a Brenda George 'I can't stand it' on Kent 45 knocked out of my hand transferring it from deck to record box, landing on the floor and cracking. Still playable though.

[Joe M'geek]

wasn't strictly responsible for this myself, but suppose I should have remembered not to get the mint Downliners Sect, new zealand pressed 'little eqypt' posted to my girlfriends house. She had a little shitbag of a dog whose main task in life, aside from shitting, was eating the mail.

Mind, I nearly killed the animal after a regrettable 'dog fishing' incident, so I guess we're even

[Lord Thames]

I much prefer to live in a world of VG+/-. Yes.

I'm with you and Si Fly on this - in fact, this problem extends to new vinyl as well. Charity shop vinyl I can fling about with gay abandon, but on the occasions when I buy a brand spanking new elpee, I'm sometimes worries about playing it in case I knacker it totally!

I don't know why, because most modern records are pressed on horrible sub-Boulevard quality vinyl, and come in horrible plasticky inner sleeves that act as dust magnets and scratch the little blighters before I've even played them.

Oh, and I one put a nice pattern of little scratches right the way across a Mas de Vega library LP by the Blue Monty Orchestra by accidentally pushing it under the turntable instead of on top - still plays OK, but I were reet gutted.

[babycart]

[QUOTE=Lord Thames]I don't know why, because most modern records are pressed on horrible sub-Boulevard quality vinyl, and come in horrible plasticky inner sleeves that act as dust magnets and scratch the little blighters before I've even played them.
QUOTE]

Oh Christ, don't get me started on plastic inner sleeves. If you buy latin or African records you´ll know all about the sheer lack of practicality of these wispy little cousins of the condom. Sometimes it's as if they've just shrink-wrapped the vinyl, and if you try and substitute a paper sleeve it won't fit back into the cheap cardboard cover.
If only governments had rigidly enforced a vinyl lp quality packaging standard, using the Impulse albums from the 60s as a basic template.

[vinylism]

well, apart from the usual scratching records due to eagerness in wanting to play it, there are two very memorable incidents, both caused by shelving rather than my own clumsiness (which is generally restricted to beer related activity as most people will atest to):

incident one : moved into a new house, slightly over-loaded the shelving in my haste to get everything sorted the same day, the next thing i know is a slight tilting of the complete shelving unit, followed by a horrendous creaking noise as the shelving unit collapses to one side - still full of records and managing to slip sideways onto another crate of records. the sound of cracking vinyl motivated me, david banner style, to jump and catch the shelving. best weight training ever... and fortunately it was only a couple of rubbish reggae 12"s that got destroyed, i later discovered.

incident two : moving house (there's a theme here), same shelving unit (y'see?) which is open back styled. a whole pile of records slip off the shelf - top one, natch - onto the tiled floor and several of them split right down the middle.

i'm never moving house again.

[benjamin hatton]

i reckon out of approx. 3000 records, it'd be easier for me to list the ones' i *haven't* vandalised

[billybuck]

I remember vividly, the heady days of being 9 and deliberately dropping my Dad's London American 78's of The Coasters, Eddie Cochran and Chuck Berry onto the Kitchen Floor. I think I did about 8 of them.

I've since replaced them all - at a substancial cost. I was such a little wanker.

[nosoul]

i rode over my 'you got to be a man' phil la of soul 45 [male version] with my computer chair n bust it
did the same with 4 copies of eddie simpson funky black man that were all in a plastic sleeve and 2 or 3 of em got cracked
also dropped a bottle of beer on warren thompson you cant hinder me blue candle 45 and put a hairline through it , now that really hurt
i was djin out the other month and some stoopid bird spilt a drink all over my little denise 45 'check me out' so i put that record into rehab