Buy Better-records.com records, they come with the cover, original sleeve, and premium rice paper sleeve all in a nice thick plastic cover. Comes shipped this way. Maintains the cover like new and the LP in sleeve slides in and out so smooth. Either that or resleeve like whart, which does save a couple hundred smackers but without the Hot Stamper it is a wash.
Record Jackets and sleeves
While trying to slip the Mo-Fi rice paper inner sleeve into it's jacket, a corner folded over. I straightened it out. Folded again. Wiggled it, out, in a few times. Got it. Halfway in, almost. Pull out an inch. Back in, fast. Got it. Looks a bit puffy. Flatten out the air. I'd been talking to my imaginary friend about how awesome vinyl is but now felt uncool after all that effort.
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All this hassle would have been saved if they had designed jackets to be 1/2 inch bigger.
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All this hassle would have been saved if they had designed jackets to be 1/2 inch bigger.