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I'm with you. I used to think, "It'd be a lot more convenient to align the openings of my inners, jackets, and outers for easy access to the LP." Then a record fell out when I was handling a stack. Never again. Grabbing a record to play is a 3-step process for me from now on: Remove jacket from outer, remove inner from jacket, and remove vinyl from inner.
Same here. Or the sleeve would get stuck in the shelf while I pulled the album out.

Storing the record behind the jacket with the outer sleeve is a two step process for me now. Remove inner from outer. Remove vinyl from inner. Bish bash bosh
 
How I feel reading this thread as someone who doesn't use outer sleeves....

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I think its partly minimizing the steps to play them (and put them away) that keeps me from putting them in sleeves, but also the aesthetic and the appreciation for ring wear / well loved / seasoned records that comes from time. It must come from memories of my parents & sisters record collection. I do have some - maybe 10% at best - in sleeves for the more valuable/rarer releases, but there really isn't a hard method or reasoning to it.

I'm relieved I'm not the only one!
And mostly for similar reasons.
I have a few in sleeves, typically because of silk screened jackets (or undersized like my Country Mike bootleg, it's to snug so it's in an outer with the record stored outside the sleeve) or a couple of jackets that had the misfortune of hosting extra sticky stickers that I don't want affecting the other jackets. My wife has a couple of her signed and more valuable ones in outers as well.
 
I just can’t deal with the idea that I may be responsible for shelf wear. Maybe someday

I decided early on I wanted to keep mine like I do my books, rather than like I did my comics. May lead to some diminished value here and there, but ultimately that's not what I'm buying them for. I really love the aesthetic of unobstructed spines all aligned.
 
I'm relieved I'm not the only one!
And mostly for similar reasons.
I have a few in sleeves, typically because of silk screened jackets (or undersized like my Country Mike bootleg, it's to snug so it's in an outer with the record stored outside the sleeve) or a couple of jackets that had the misfortune of hosting extra sticky stickers that I don't want affecting the other jackets. My wife has a couple of her signed and more valuable ones in outers as well.
i'm gonna add the 250 hudson outers in your big box! also PMing you about that box since i think everything is here now...
 
Reading 3 pages of discourse around preferred outer sleeve girth and clarity has led me to some interesting conclusions about our little community.

See below for recommended course of action:

 
Reading 3 pages of discourse around preferred outer sleeve girth and clarity has led me to some interesting conclusions about our little community.

See below for recommended course of action:

if this is a VMP referral link so help me god....
why didn't i think to do that!?
 
Reading 3 pages of discourse around preferred outer sleeve girth and clarity has led me to some interesting conclusions about our little community.

See below for recommended course of action:

MuSiC iS mY tHeRaPy
 
Well, I was just thinking this morning that I should get in touch with Oldies about a refund, but I just received a shipping notice from them, so I may be getting my other two NIck Cave records after all... it's exceptionally unclear when I check anything on the website, so we'll just have to see in 2 or 3 weeks when whatever it is get's here!
 
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