Album Covers & Inserts


We had water in out basement. Just enough to ruin everything on the floor.  I have ~100 albums where the album covers & sleeves got ruined. I have them in good sleeves & blank cardboards. Is there anywhere I can get prints of the album covers.  iTunes used to have the album art but doesn’t now. Any suggestions?

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Showing 1 response by elliottbnewcombjr

What a shame. At least you got to yours soon after the leak.

I hope you saved the wet covers! A new cover isn’t going to help you if they are on a shelf.

I was given about 50 lps that were below a water leak, sat wet for a long time.

Covers wet, some mold, some paper so thin it fell to pieces, mold on the LPs.

BUT, the edges of the covers were in decent shape, could read them if packed on a shelf.

I dried everything out, sprayed and brushed the mold off as best as I could, washed the mold off the lps in the sink with dish detergent, dried in dish washer rack.

This is how I learned about Jazz before spending money on some music I knew nothing about.

So, the most important identifier, the cover edge was maintained, then, when individually played, a proper cleaning of the LP and new inner sleeve.