Any SAD vinyl related experiences?

[Vlad]

As a parallel thread to STRANGE vinyl related experiences, here is the SAD vinyl related experiences: list these vinyl stories that made you sad...

Here is a few:

1. I decided to place my turntable in a new area. After a few months, I realized many of my LP's were warped. Strangely, this happened to the ones that I had played recently. I quickly realized that the sun would hit the turntable between 2 and 4 pm. Any LP's left on the TT would get the sunny heat treatment....sad...Quite a few got damaged, and good OG presses as well...

2. Flea market 1993, Paris. Great OG LP catches, many plastic bags, generally containing 1 or 2 LP's. Subway. Last second stress: go to get out at this stop swiftly...and managed to leave behind several bags. Too late. Subway doors are locked, and train is moving. Bye, bye rare records...

[one-A-way!]

Well.. Actually a sad one happend to me just two days ago, I took all my 7" out of one-a-way hq back home, I got home left the records on the floor near my bed.. All night it was raining badly (and were not used to that inna Israel) my porch was flooded and slowly water started coming into the room thru the flooded porch while i was a sleep, Waking up i see my room's filled with water and all vinyls bottom part is soaking wet (all sleeves ruined)
I'm talking bout large amount of 7".
Luckily from what i checked, none quality damaged, just whole heap a sleeves gone.

[Nugstriker]

It was my uncle's 50 something birthday a while back, they decided to have some sort of retro theme. Man shows up at his house to find all his old records hanging from the ceiling, glued to things, all over the place. I don't think he even had a working record player at the time but still sad to see all those records destroyed.

[flashman]

My cat used my records as a scratching post and now all my "rarities" have damaged covers. Oh well, I'm not going to sell them anyway, but still.

[Adam Bom]

dropped a nice Cultural Roots 12" right on end and the vinyl chipped so now the first 30 seconds or so are completely missing...ooops. some vinyls bounce, some a dem crack...this one was heavy and brittle - not good. Live and learn.

[kalcidis]

My cat used my records as a scratching post and now all my "rarities" have damaged covers. Oh well, I'm not going to sell them anyway, but still.

I know this one too well ... but the cat left with my ex girl...

... which makes my life sound as a blues song.

[hot milk]

a few years back, two 45s that i was particularly excited about arrived in the mail. you know when you feel like a kid opening a gift when a BIG tune has just arrived and you're unwrapping the layers to get to the goodies? well i get through the final layer in the packaging only to reveal two utterly, completely and otherwise totally warped records. i mean they must have been sitting on the postman's dashboard for hours (it was the summertime). i'm talking the vinyl had waves rising up and down almost an inch. so sad. i took some pictures of them and held on to them for a few months, thinking i'd come up with some brilliant plan to fix them, but there weren't any grooves left, they were all melted together, it was just a shiny black surface. there was ultimately a happy ending when i acquired both records a few years later, but not for nearly as nice a price.

the moment i knew my dj spar was a real vinyl guy is when i showed them to him and for the first split second he cringed and recoiled, like i was pulling out a decapitated head or something. great reaction.

[oli]

back in the eighties,i used to have a very nice bootleg album of bob marley live from i guess '74..put it against the electric heater which switched on automatically by night..the album was warped of course, except the last song get up stand up..
funny thing was that i received this lp from a friend who stole it from another person..crime doesn't pay

[versionside]

...and managed to leave behind several bags. Too late. Subway doors are locked, and train is moving. Bye, bye rare records...

That is a wicked one, Vlad! In a perfect record world, you woulda timed it just right and leaped onto the bumper of the last train, ride it wildly to the next stop and dash for your records.

Good lesson though, I won't forget your story!

I stupidly had a lamp sitting above and next to my turntable [no cover on turntable]... was playing Ras Michael lp, turned around and knocked the lamp onto the playing LP - metal edge of the lamp sliced into 3 or 4 tracks! It all sounded as bad as it looked too.

On the other side of things, not too long ago, I dropped about 12 lps, somehow none of them broke.

[Herm-one]

My dog hates my postman, so once in a while my dog takes it on the mail, and for some reason he love my records.