mc, no offense but if you don't understand the various reasons for record cleaning and need to ask then possibly you are one of those who dosen't need to bother.
However even a simple search for record cleaning will turn up hundreds of positive results. And those with a wide variety of cleaning methods.
What really surprised me was an Audio Note system demo many years ago to our audio club. The AN rep included vinyl playback in his demo and commented that all one needed to do to clean a record was to play it. His contention was that the stylus tracing the groove would clear away any dust, grime, or deposits on the vinyl. I've never known anyone who is half-serious about playing LPs that believes that. In fact playing records without cleaning can imbed the contaminants and make them sound worse.