@soix I am confident that your records will be quite well. The pressure from horizontal storage no doubt pushed contaminates into the grooves. But that is the only real issues you need to be concerned with. No matter how you cared for them many years ago, you definitely need to use a more sophisticated cleaning system for their new use. Without having to spend very much, you can get a respectable wet/vacuum record cleaning system, such as The Record Doctor or a Nitty Gritty, and also a stack of plastic anti-static sleeves. Treat your records right and they will deliver good results, better than in the past. Acoustic Sounds has the record sleeves you need, and at about 25 to 30 cents per record it's the very least investment there is into the world of vinyl. Acoustic Sounds also has all of the Steely Dan albums you desire. From relatively inexpensive reissues to the state-of-the-art UHQR reissues. Analog is a lot of fun. Enjoy the newly inspired journey, once again.
Records not stored vertically for decades
I’m looking to eventually get my vinyl rig back up n running and went to get my albums and found they’ve been lying flat probably for decades in two stacks of about 75 albums in each stack. Any chance they’re still in good shape, or what damage may have been done versus being stored vertically? They’ve been in a dry, temperature-controlled basement the whole time. No way to play them right now so just hoping they might still be ok. Thanks for thoughts.