[78-L] shtunked-up labels, was Re: Liberty Music Shop L-231

[Robert M. Bratcher Jr.]

At 10:13 PM 11/28/2008, you wrote:
>Taylor Bowie wrote:
> > Our Goodwill store here in Seattle used to put these nasty little stickers
> > on the label...don't know what sort of glue they used but ir really would
> > stick...I still have some records which I never bothered to tidy 
> up and take
> > the tags off.
>
>Goodwill stores in Buffalo, when I started making regular trips there, always
>used a grease pencil to mark the price on the shellac. No damage done and you
>can always tell where you bought that particular disc. Same thing on LP
>jackets. Then there's the Bop Shop in Rochester, one of my favourite haunts,
>but the stickers they put on the $1 LP labels to prevent tag switching always
>manage to cover title info (why never the label name, Tom?) and rip off the
>surface of the label unless you are VERY very patient in peeling 
>them off slowly.
>
>dl

This one record dealer in an antique co-op (Pasadena TX) puts 
stickers on every record often covering part of the label or ending 
grooves. I got tired of using Goo Gone to get the labels off so I 
quit buying from that dealer......