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By deafmetal
#104899
This looks interesting, although the idea of framing colored vinyl discs steers this industry even closer to the "art object" side of the fence. I do like framing album cover sleeves though, and I have tried the ones from Ikea -- which are too small for a gatefold sleeve and slightly oversized for a standard sleeve. Go figure.
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By ScoJo
#104904
deafmetal wrote:This looks interesting, although the idea of framing colored vinyl discs steers this industry even closer to the "art object" side of the fence. I do like framing album cover sleeves though, and I have tried the ones from Ikea -- which are too small for a gatefold sleeve and slightly oversized for a standard sleeve. Go figure.
Off to the side of this topic: in one place which I moved into back in the day, I decided to cover the whole of one wall of my room with LP sleeves - and it was a big wall! Just bluetacked those bad boys up there, spent a really enjoyable couple of days selecting/positioning them and tacking them up- it looked pretty friggin' bad ass when I'd finished. Felt like a champ.

Felt more like a chump, however, when it came to moving out of that place - and the blue tack tore most of the rear sleeves a new one!! (Of course, this was back in my easy going, habitual 'smoking' days when nothing really seemed to phase me much....those days are LONG GONE friends.)
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By inksb
#104905
ScoJo wrote:
deafmetal wrote:This looks interesting, although the idea of framing colored vinyl discs steers this industry even closer to the "art object" side of the fence. I do like framing album cover sleeves though, and I have tried the ones from Ikea -- which are too small for a gatefold sleeve and slightly oversized for a standard sleeve. Go figure.
Off to the side of this topic: in one place which I moved into back in the day, I decided to cover the whole of one wall of my room with LP sleeves - and it was a big wall! Just bluetacked those bad boys up there, spent a really enjoyable couple of days selecting/positioning them and tacking them up- it looked pretty friggin' bad ass when I'd finished. Felt like a champ.

Felt more like a chump, however, when it came to moving out of that place - and the blue tack tore most of the rear sleeves a new one!! (Of course, this was back in my easy going, habitual 'smoking' days when nothing really seemed to phase me much....those days are LONG GONE friends.)
I love this story, always wanted to do this but didn't want to ruin my sleeves. I used to be really OCD about protecting all of my records. I bought hundreds of plastic sleeves to store them in. I just don't give a shit any more. I'm not in it for the value of the product, I just want it to sound amazing. I'm sure I'll regret this at some point down the road but oh well, I'll just have to enjoy myself until I get there.
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deafmetal wrote:This looks interesting, although the idea of framing colored vinyl discs steers this industry even closer to the "art object" side of the fence. I do like framing album cover sleeves though, and I have tried the ones from Ikea -- which are too small for a gatefold sleeve and slightly oversized for a standard sleeve. Go figure.
Yeah, I'm looking for it more for the full album of "next on deck/now playing myself. But toally get what you mean.
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By Dollarhyde
#104920
Tempted to give these a go. Not sure about putting vinyl only on the wall but some coloured vinyl does look pretty purdy. Now if they stuck a back light behind the white plastic to light your room via psychedelic coloured vinyl :D
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By havershaw
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Sco Jo. I also did a whole wall that way back in the day, although I used thrift store records with cool 50s/60s covers and nothing valuable or expensive. Just stuff with cool graphic design.