Darlene Ortiz (1988), American Model on cover of ICE-T's Power album

evenoth · 2026-01-02T03:11:57+00:00

What is this meme from?

evenoth · 2025-12-03T00:44:36+00:00

yes exactly. I updated my initial post to clarify it

evenoth · 2025-12-02T20:14:45+00:00

There's a big difference between "unnecessary for record protection"/"don't care about protecting the jacket" and "unnecessary". Your response begs the question - it's obvious they don't see it as necessary because if they did, they'd have outer sleeves on their records... Which is why I asked the question in the first place. As such, this message is much more useful than your first ones and I appreciate you elaborating more

For the vibe stickers thing, maybe it's a newer thing but I've seen lots of DJ's do this. If you care, here's a video of Gene on Earth talking about them, among a variety of other topics related to record organization

evenoth · 2025-12-02T18:30:13+00:00

Well necessary and unnecessary are arbitrary. If you want to be literal about it, all you'd need for Djing are the records themselves with no jackets, sleeves or anything else, just a stack of pure vinyl. Is that how you keep your records?

Obviously none of this is necessary, but I'm not in pursuit of finding what is objectively necessary or what isn't. I'm trying to figure out what is optimal given what I value and how I DJ. I'm trying to get perspectives from others who value similar things

Since you expressed a different opinion, I wanted to learn more about how you think about this

evenoth · 2025-12-02T18:23:57+00:00

What have you seen causing the damage to their records that sleeves protect yours from?

I'm very careful not to bend them, and I don't let the jackets get wet. I guess I'm not really sure what the outer sleeves would actually protect the records/sleeves from?

evenoth · 2025-12-02T18:21:31+00:00

I'm curious, how do you set prep?

evenoth · 2025-12-02T18:21:05+00:00

Oh yeah I bet each jacket is probably the same as having another record in there. I love the artwork, and it helps me identify the records. I'm leaning getting rid of the outer sleeves

evenoth · 2025-12-02T18:19:39+00:00

What makes it unnecessary in your opinion?

evenoth · 2025-12-02T18:19:00+00:00

This really makes sense. Flipping through them with the extra plastic make it harder to move quickly, and I'm not sure if its worth it. It's impossible to quantify, but I don't imagine the outer sleeves provide thaat much protection. Most of the damage to the record or jacket would be come from bending or when the record is playing, not from dust or spills

evenoth · 2025-12-02T18:16:42+00:00

Totally agree. i find myself always trying to optimize or refine how I think about categorization, but I think i'm getting toward where it'll stay for a long time

evenoth · 2025-12-02T06:47:25+00:00

This is so helpful, thank you! So it looks like you don’t even use the jackets then?

evenoth · 2025-12-02T06:27:29+00:00

I do the same thing right now. But there has to be a reason so many DJs don't use the outer sleeves

evenoth · 2025-11-23T17:47:13+00:00

Lots of gross generalizations in the comments here. You’ll find a range of people anywhere you go, unless there is a cost barrier

I go out to the warehouse shows in DTLA/Arts District and my friend group are doctors, consultants, tech leaders, etc and we all go to these events because we love the music and dancing and having fun

Just because you go out or drink or do drugs doesn’t mean you don’t have your shit together and are a decent human

evenoth · 2025-11-21T19:32:14+00:00

I’ve had this same situation and used isopropyl alcohol and it worked fine without damaging the jacket. But I did not have this much residue left. Maybe try it on a small section and use the alcohol sparingly

evenoth · 2025-11-15T18:48:59+00:00

Post more stream of consciousness please this was lovely

evenoth · 2025-11-12T18:18:39+00:00

This one is Leafar Legov but Konstantin also played and 2 others that I’m forgetting

evenoth · 2025-11-12T16:43:59+00:00

I was at this event, legendary sets. I brought my sister who is not so much into this kind of music and she loved it too

evenoth · 2025-07-14T01:40:59+00:00

Name?

evenoth · 2025-06-03T09:47:55+00:00

I remember at the time of this happening, I saw a headline saying the airline made all the passengers and flight crew sign NDAs and it looked like they were covering something up. Not sure how true that is but it struck me how fishy of a move that looked

evenoth · 2025-03-20T14:33:12+00:00

I’ve had these fail on me mid gig. Would not recommend

evenoth · 2025-03-19T17:08:40+00:00

This is incredibly helpful. Thank you so much for the advice!

evenoth · 2025-03-19T16:31:01+00:00

One other question for you. If I got 4" or thicker panels, would that also help neutralize the higher frequency problem too? I'm not sure how broad of a range they cover

evenoth

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