Re: [ARSCLIST] Fwd: [ARSCLIST] Westminster Lab Series

[David Lennick <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've seen them gooey, I've seen them with the zipper jammed, and I've seen them 
with the disc lying loose and unprotected between the two cardboard halves 
minus the plastic. This was the first one I'd turned up "intact", unaffected by 
chemical reactions with the plastic (this is a problem..I bought a dozen or so 
spoken word albums from a college library and all had turned cloudy and gray 
because of the thick outer plastic sleeve) and, as I noted, even including the 
booklet.

And it cost me all of a buck. (Okay, more when you figure in the tank of gas I 
used up driving to and back from Kingston yesterday.)

dl

Don Tait wrote:
>   Congratulations on finding that Westminster Lab LP in almost perfect 
> condition, David! I've seen a lot of them and I must say that what most impresses me 
> about what you wrote is that evidently the covers of the inside heavy 
> cardboard sleeve hadn't essentially liquified and adhered to the inside of the 
> plastic container bag. I've seen a lot of them with that problem. They've been a 
> gooey mess. In one or two cases I had no choice but to extract the record from 
> the container, put it in an anonymous sleeve, and throw the original packaging 
> away. It would be interesting to know what caused that problem: a chemical 
> reaction between the inner covers and the vinyl bag, temperature/humidity issues, 
> or what. 
>
>   With that said, those Lab Series LPs did indeed have fabulous mono sound 
> and that Petrouchka (Scherchen conducting) is a great recorded performance.
>
>   Don Tait
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> Will wonders never cease? I came across a Westminster Laboratory Series 
> LP today whose packaging was intact, the zipper worked (didn't jam at 
> the bottom), and the disc inside the plastic sleeve was in near mint 
> condition. Usually these things show up destroyed, especially since 
> folks would get fed up with the thick plastic outer container and get 
> rid of it, then find that the "album" was just a foldover with no place 
> to protect the disc. Even the pamphlet was there.  (W-LAB 7011, 
> Petrushka, if anyone cares.)
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> dl
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