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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Follow up:

Just after posting my response, FedEx came up the driveway with a Blue Note Tone Poet--Freddie Roach/Good Move. Nice!

Play it—unless it’s warped, in which case I clean, flatten, and then play it.

Goes into the Degritter first then a clean inner sleeve.  Add it to my discogs collection list then to the “to be played” que…

I would return it, new records all have GPS and a chip in them that would track my listening habits.

I clean it on my ClearAudio Smart Matrix record cleaner with Audio Intelligence record cleaner, followed by store bought distilled water.  Then I play it.