Do you guys also like the smell of your records in the morning? I know I do... I think the smell is an often undervalued part of a record collection. And the smell is also one of the strongest senses that are linked with association. In quite a few cases I can tell just by their smell which package a certain record was in when I received it.
I sometimes also catch myself sniffing my records, and in my opinion the ones in their brown paper sleeves are the best to sniff (and company sleeves are ok too). Any other members on here do this too? Or do I need some professional help or join 45ists anonymous?
Of course there's a downside to everything, and in this case it's the records that have that cigarette smell or things like that. The worst example of this is a package I got from Italy a few years back. The records were nice/in the condition described etc, but they honestly smelled like they had been lying next to a dead whale for the better part of a month. The smell was absolutely unbearable. It got better over time, but when I'm browsing through my records I can sometimes still grasp a whiff that takes me back to the moment I opened that package, and trust me, there's better moments to remember than that one.
Btw: I opened the package while in hospital, cause myparents were kind enough to take the new arrivals with them for me to open 'em. After I opened 'the package of death' I was afraid some nurses would be running into the room, thinking a remarkably vile epidemic of gangreen just broke out in my room. I left the hospital soon after that but I pity the patient that came in after me
C'mon lads, this forum does deserve a thread about the smell of our 45s. Feel free to contribute, and if you ever feel like you're taking the record collecting too far remember there's always guys like me that are even more pathetic
Do you guys also like the smell of your records in the morning? I know I do... I think the smell is an often undervalued part of a record collection. And the smell is also one of the strongest senses that are linked with association. In quite a few cases I can tell just by their smell which package a certain record was in when I received it.
I sometimes also catch myself sniffing my records, and in my opinion the ones in their brown paper sleeves are the best to sniff (and company sleeves are ok too). Any other members on here do this too? Or do I need some professional help or join 45ists anonymous?
Of course there's a downside to everything, and in this case it's the records that have that cigarette smell or things like that. The worst example of this is a package I got from Italy a few years back. The records were nice/in the condition described etc, but they honestly smelled like they had been lying next to a dead whale for the better part of a month. The smell was absolutely unbearable. It got better over time, but when I'm browsing through my records I can sometimes still grasp a whiff that takes me back to the moment I opened that package, and trust me, there's better moments to remember than that one.
Btw: I opened the package while in hospital, cause myparents were kind enough to take the new arrivals with them for me to open 'em. After I opened 'the package of death' I was afraid some nurses would be running into the room, thinking a remarkably vile epidemic of gangreen just broke out in my room. I left the hospital soon after that but I pity the patient that came in after me
C'mon lads, this forum does deserve a thread about the smell of our 45s. Feel free to contribute, and if you ever feel like you're taking the record collecting too far remember there's always guys like me that are even more pathetic