Bought a warped copy of Ornette Coleman's Free Jazz LP last fall. I lost the receipt and time went by and I felt goofy about returning it. Plus, it was still playable--I just had to be careful about dropping the needle at the start of the record.
Well, so yesterday, a scorching July day in Iowa, I finally put an old method to the test: took two heavy panes of glass, put the record between them (with the inner sleeve on, to avoid scratching the LP), and set it out on my deck in the hot sun for about an hour. Voila! No more warped record. Plays great. This really works!
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