The Weekly Show for Music Fans who love to buy Physical Music
Chart Watch – New Release News – Music Biz Chat
UK Album Charts – Number 1
Lana Del Ray – Did You Know That There’s A Tunnel Under… (Polydor)
This week’s sales: 41,925
Physical: 33,108 ( CD = 9,717 – Vinyl = 20,809 – Cassette – 2,582)
Downloads: 998
Streams: 7,819
New Release News : Joe Bonnamassa, Mike Oldfield. Ratt, Trespass, Fixation, Wishbone Ash.
Week Five of the campaign to have poly lined inner sleeves supplied as standard for new vinyl
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Comment from Graham Harvey (Now Spinning Magazine)
MY VIEW ON MODERN LP PACKAGING
“I’ve been a music fan all my life and have been collecting LPs since 1962, over 60 years. Now whilst there has always been the occasional album full of static on purchase and dodgy inner sleeves, the current state of the market is a disgrace. So often these days, brand new LPs are so full of static that removal from the sleeve is difficult and to add more problems, they need cleaning before playing. A lot of this is down to the poor quality paper inner sleeves that are used which have remnants of paper dust inside. A worse case scenario can result in minor scratches the first time the record is removed.
Why has this become such a problem with the “vinyl revival” and why aren’t decent antistatic polylined sleeves provided with the product. Cheap hasty manufacturing is the answer in my opinion which is a disgraceful situation. Like so many LP fans these days, I buy my own supply of quality inner sleeves which I use as replacements for those provided as necessary.
As someone who was brought up on playing LPs, and still loves the format, it annoys me intensely that so little care goes into how the final product is packaged. In any other commercial undertaking, the business would fail if brand new products had to be adapted at the buyers expense to make it fit to use.
The music industry owes its loyal customers a decent product with decent packaging. We need, no demand antistatic decent sleeves to keep our LPs in pristine condition”. Graham
Phil Aston | Now Spinning Magazine
