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Monday, December 8, 2008

Points that you need to Know about Record Sleeves

The outer covering of every vinyl discs is called a Record Sleeve. However, they are also called dust sleeve, liner, or album liner. These sleeves are very important for vinyl record’s longevity because they are protecting the vinyl record from dusts, water, UV rays, and scratches.

Moreover, vinyl sleeves are getting a form of art that no record storage media can compete. Vinyl records sleeves can be design into a dynamic graphic that can be a great material for wall decors. Music artists are always planning to make their record albums attractive by hiring art photographers, graphic artists, and painters to work for their vinyl covers.


There is really an immense demand of beautiful vinyl covers because people really love artistic touches of vinyl sleeve’s front face. It is fascinating and very much a delight to viewers. These album liners are so attractive that they fetch a fortune if they are rare and a few in numbers.


Try to see a lot of album covers from the 40’s era up to the present. They all have their own styles and attractions. The whole pictures gives a lot of thought and some are really intriguing. Vinyl records are quite gorgeous if the album covers attract a lot of people. It seems to be that these vinyl sleeves motivate music consumers to buy the album just on the matter of the front covers.


The Beatles had made a lot of hype on conceptualizing their vinyl records album. They themselves design it and most of the time they are scrutinized by religious groups and civic organizations if they hit on something sensitive.


Vinyl records had long before been the king of music storage medium but they were ousted by the incredible compact discs during the 90’s. Then again, their reemergence in the music industry take a toll on CDs sales along with the rise of digital’s downloading sales on the music landscape. Eventually, vinyl records will make utter dominance which some say is just a fad and others say that it is a realization that analog sounds are better than digital.


The tremendous shift on music storage is gaining an impact on how people perceive the record industry business. Somehow it is really an eye opener because things are quite interesting these days for any subject that refers to vinyl records.

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