I buy a lot of used records. Unless there is something special about a sleeve I throw away the inner sleeves and replace them with Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab inner sleeves. Should I always keep the original inner sleeves regardless of their interest level?
I clean all new-to-me records before putting them in MoFi or Nagaoka sleeves. So new sleeves tell me that they've been cleaned and safe (for the stylus) to use.
After cleaning an album with my record cleaning machine, I always replace plain paper sleeves with Mobile Fidelity sleeves. Some of my album sleeves come with white paper outer material and Mobile Fidelity like inner material. Those I keep. The plain paper ones I throw away.
Every new or used record I acquire a clean well and play so I can grade them when I log them! Then most times I discard the stock paper sleeve and replace with a Mofi sleeve! If it has any writing on it I retain it and slip it into the jacket! I have lots of OG's and not risking any (anymore) damage to them by this horrible old crisp sleeves! Just clean well before putting into a nice clean sleeve!
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