What is the first thing you do when you unwrap a new vinyl record?

Inspect it, clean on my cleaning machine, treat with Last Treatment. Put it in plastic sleeve and put a small adhesive dot on it with the year purchased, and attach LAST sticker. Then play it and enter it into my database.

Just play it.

Once I remove the shrink-wrap, I put the jacket into either a single or gatefold liner, put the disc into the Degritter for a quick wash/rinse, replace the sleeve with a Big Fudge sleeve if it's a cheapie, and remove static from the sleeve with the Destat.

Follow up:

Just after posting my response, FedEx came up the driveway with a Blue Note Tone Poet--Freddie Roach/Good Move. Nice!

Play it—unless it’s warped, in which case I clean, flatten, and then play it.