What is the first thing you do when you unwrap a new vinyl record?


That is, apart from kiss the person who gave it to you!

You might play it, catalog it, archive it, clean it or simply store it.  I am sure there are many other things you do!

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Cleaned, placed in a new inner sleeve, then carried off to the turntable. Latest was Rick Wakeman's 2014 re-recording of JTTCOTE.

Inspect it, clean on my cleaning machine, treat with Last Treatment. Put it in plastic sleeve and put a small adhesive dot on it with the year purchased, and attach LAST sticker. Then play it and enter it into my database.

Once I remove the shrink-wrap, I put the jacket into either a single or gatefold liner, put the disc into the Degritter for a quick wash/rinse, replace the sleeve with a Big Fudge sleeve if it's a cheapie, and remove static from the sleeve with the Destat.