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What Would You Do with a Sealed, 1st Press Miles Davis "Kind of Blue"?

This LP is still sealed in the original clear plastic inner sleeve (just one tiny 1/8" circular spot of mold on one track).  The LP cover has clearly seen shelf life making it say VG.   I am curious about what would you do please?  Open and play or sell to buy other records or?  All thoughts and suggestions are much appreciated - thank you 😉
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bimmerman2
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Send it to me, I'll play the hell out of it!! 
glupson
7,842 posts
 
Were records in 1959 sealed in plastic outer wrap like they are today?

If you have to ask what to do with it, send it to bimmerman2 and be done with it.
paulgardner
183 posts
 
I have a friend who has one. Sealed. He’s one away from owning every Blue Note first pressing. The guy has spent a damn FORTUNE on ha collection. I forget which one he’s missing. It’s damn impressive tho! 
paulgardner
183 posts
 
Yes they were sealed in plastic back then. 
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bdp24
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Yeah, LP outer covers were sealed in plastic shrink wrap in the U.S. at the time, but not necessarily in the UK and the rest of the world. As I said, Columbia Records at that time was also sealing the LP itself inside an inner sleeve that was a plastic bag. I remember sliding my mom's Johnny Cash album back into that plastic bag of an inner sleeve, and having a hell of a time getting the sleeve to stay in place on the LP as I slid both back into the outer cover.

When I joined the Columbia Record Club in 1962 or 3, my first month's selection (Johnny Horton's Greatest Hits) had a standard paper inner sleeve. So I guess by then Columbia had stopped using the plastic inner sleeve.

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