Looked for these at Target today and didn’t see any 
proper cleaning, storage and handling will minimize degradation of the record, and calibration of your tt to the appropriate weight and height (for simplicity sake) will minimize this even more. no system is perfect, and you can polish any other method to be the perfect storage mechanism - even if cost is not a factor. environmental impacts could be brought up about data center storage, bulk storage, and any other medium really. a dj or collector (or yoyo player) will sometimes grab two of the same object for that very preservation. and, when inevitably the lights go out, i know i can fashion together a hand crank turntable and speaker, maybe not turning at the exact rpm, but enough to hear a favorite song as the world comes winding down to a dustbin. i have thousands of records and cds, and records i’ve played (seriously) hundreds of times, stored way improperly, scratched, crammed, and otherwise played dirty, and yet still have the beautiful sound and warmth that this media provides. vinyl is pretty resilient. i’ve also had dozens of those anti-yo cds, and have never played one at all lol. it’s dated at this point i think. which, brings us back to some of our original points…. does it need to be archived on the web or cloud storage? not necessarily, in my opinion. what about all the classics dating back 100, 50, 20 years? sometimes things aren’t supposed to be permanent. when was the last time you heard the beach boys, or moon river, or liberacci? all good music, but these days we are inundated with music that is never going to be put on a physical medium, and will be lost when spotify or youtube pulls it, or goes down, or whatever happens if the end is nigh. some people hoard guns, i’ll stick to my yoyos and records. maybe they won’t protect me in the event of the zombie apocalypse, but they are generally cheaper and bring joy to a room.
edit: one of the ‘storage’ piles next to my tt
Birthday present from @deelee showed up today! Couldn’t be happier with this Loadout SR! The Everyday Carmel was a pleasant surprise!
Happy Birthday! Those are some sweet looking throws.
When’s your birthday? mine’s on the 29th.
17th. Constitution Day
Mine’s 9/25. Now I hear that’s Dolly day…
How’s the amusing cap
But not lossless so bad for backing up and you lose them in the case of a natural disaster
Yeah that’s always going to be the benefit of digital data; that it can be infinitely replicated losslessly.
I’m most likely going to be trading/selling mine as soon as I get it unless it somehow blows my mind (doubted). I’ve had my eyes on that Sprout model 
maybe we could work out some kind of trade.
DM me bro 
I’ve not had the chance to play it yet. This thing rings at the slightest touch and is well finished. Will give it a whirl this weekend.
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Vinyl records are like dogs… only those who own them can truly understand what it means to spend a lifetime with them.
There are no worries about the future; there is only love for the here and now.
Johannes Gutenberg resolved this issue in the 15th century with the invention of movable-type printing—history’s first and highly efficient backup system, as well as a means of spreading culture.
Digital tools and storage media are not immune to natural or socio-political disasters and, unlike books or gramophones, require electricity to function. We have inherited Egyptian parchments, the writings of Galileo Galilei or Leonardo Da Vinci, centuries-old paintings, and even prehistoric cave art.
But nothing is eternal or invulnerable.
