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

@richardbrand  that's the problem, it's run on vampire dreams! I can't get rid of them

@grislybutter Ha, so how do you power the chip on your shoulder?  Blood-static pressure?

@richardbrand I used to have sky-high blood pressure, now it can't power an airtag...

Sounds hellish.

Then I listen for pops and clicks and skips. Then a few days later, I listen to the music.

I just hit it with the AQ dust and static (using myself as the static ground) brush and listen to it. I recently bought the re-mixed Band Stage Fright album (just the vinyl, not the box set pile) and it sounds amazingly clean and excellent...my original version has been played a zillion times so there's that but the new one is some amazing vinyl.