My aunt rang me excitedly a while back. She was in a junk shop and said she’d found me a first press of Pet Sounds and it was being sold for £3 and did I want it?
Yes, I said!
Should probably get rid but… feels wrong, you know?
Got anything similar, or is everything in DiS’ collections absolutely pristine?
holy fuck
Does the record itself still play ok? Or is it fucked
It’s very scratched and marked. I’ve not played it yet because it looks disgusting and needs a wash. Haven’t had the chance to do that!
Shop round the corner from me has a £3 used section - I have Strangeways Here We Come that gets stuck on track two (and has some loud blips on other tracks), a fuzzy copy of After the Gold Rush where the title track sadly distorts at the most emotive parts, and NY’s Comes a Time that’s also pretty noisy
Still worth it overall to me
I have an original mono press of Love’s debut album that - unbeknownst to me at the time - an ex secretly slipped out of the sleeve and dragged her nails across every time she was angry with me for something. She only told me this after we split up
There aren’t that many scratches on it tbh and it plays mostly fine but there is an annoying jump in No Matter What You Do
Kinda odd behaviour …but you’ve got to admire it in a way
I’ve had a couple of items from Ebay sellers described as ‘Mint’ that resemble your copy of ‘Pet Sounds’.
oh dear
Mine looks the same. Stupid design!
Yeah, I hear it’s quite a common issue - unsurprisingly. Next copy’s going straight into a plastic sleeve.
Never been much of a Beatles fan but years ago I was getting as much coloured vinyl as I could from eBay (this was when not every record came in a coloured variant) and I bought the red and blue vinyl versions of the 1978 Beatles compilations, thinking they might be an investment (looking at Discogs I was wrong, they clearly weren’t that rare)
The red one is surprisingly good but the cover of the blue is very tatty. I’ve just checked though and the vinyl’s in good nick so I’m not sure they belong in this thread. I guess I’m just too careful, or lucky 
I had a copy of Revolver that was in very similar condition to @chanticleer ’s Pet Sounds. Maybe a bit worse tbh. Record itself was actually fine though. It was an Indian pressing that I spent hours trying, to no avail, to find listed on Discogs.
My copy of 3 feet high and rising sounds like a fry up is being cooked in the next room but it cost £10 so not the worst
I find even my most scratched old records can still sound serviceable with a good wet clean as long as you dont mind pops and clicks.
Dont have a single record thst gets stuck. Only ever happened on my old cheap budget turntable.
Actually I’ve just remembered I have a warped copy of Def Leppard’s Hysteria, left it on the front seat of my car in the sun many years ago. It does play, just, but it’s virtually a ski jump for the needle!
Blimey haha.
My dad leant my sister’s ex bf his collection of original release Beatles LPs and when they split up he returned them. My dad didn’t listen to them for years but one day he put on Sgt Peppers and noticed there was no secret track after day in the life. He looked at the sleeve and realised my sister’s ex had swapped it for some hooky version.
I’ve never really bothered buying good quality stereo equipment. The absolute worst was a fairly cheap all-in-one CD/tape/radio thing I had around 2005/6. The CD player must’ve had an over-firing laser (or something like that) cos it proper ruined a bunch of CDs. They ended up with whole sections of the underside that were loads darker than the rest and would endlessly skip when played. Encoding MP3s didn’t work properly either.
All my CDs are in boxes at my mum’s house, they’ll still be in there.
The label pressing on this original stereolab I have leaves something to be desired. It’s also gold vinyl and sounds awful on the unfucked sides, glad they reissued this one
I’ve taken a few LPs in off the street that’re in absolute tatters.
Not quite in line with the OP but I bought the intial press of this
which was a faulty press - the centre hole is about twice the diameter it should be. They were apologetic and sent a repress and some other goodies to say sorry. Plays perfectly with a bit of blu-tack though
