Same Old DD
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I do not know how this happened, but I discovered it a few weeks back. Somehow, this Hendrix Superpak, Trip Records release double LP was dropped out of the many hundreds of albums we were moving from the old house, in such a hurry to vacate the old premises and just live life in our new home.
It was unintentionally covered over by a stack of boxes, flat against the concrete floor, which sat there for about a year, even through our winter.
So when I found this album forgotten, while I was reclaiming space and organizing, in this manner of disrespect, it was moldy on the outside cover and the outer plastic cover I had used was stuck to the floor. I had already begun placing all my albums into higher quality liners well before we moved and nice covers for the outside. However this one had suffered a massive misuse; sitting on a concrete floor over our winter and still forgotten through a full summer, then another winter before I got to that particular stack of unimportant boxes full of future projects for later. I build and rebuild knives as another hobby interest. These boxes were full of high quality steel to refurb, rehandle, reshape, remake or what ever the Hell.
Anyway, the point of this speech is that I was using exclusively MO-FI to protect my albums back then, Now the outer plastic failed miserably. The cover is not usable or even salvageable in any way.
BUT, the albums inside protected by the nonPVC, inner liners, the LPs are just fine. I gave them a clean up with my SpinClean, vaccuumed with my Vinyl Vac and repeated and they actually sound just fine. Not even warped at all after sitting under a stack of BS cast off, low importance boxes in the corner of my garage for more than a F-ing year!!
SuperPak, not accepted well by fans, an odd collection of early Hendrix efforts, worth something to me, though. To find that the albums actually survived this horrendous abuse is astounding.
MO-FI utility archival LP protection is what I used. The outers failed to protect the paper from this abuse, but the inners kept the albums themselves from harm.
I am so disgusted with myself for allowing this to happen, but the LPs were just fine.
Playing the not well accepted Superpak again, for the second time. I can not believe they still work. All credit to MO-FI archival LP protection!
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