I'm lucky in that I find a lot of ex-warehouse condition discs over here, more often than not still in their original brown/white/factory paper sleeves. Now, sometimes these sleeves may be badly creased up, have some writing or a price tag on them...not the kind to potentially file away a disc in, if one was fussy about it.

However, I can't bring myself to change the tired sleeves for fresh ones, as the disc and sleeve have been together so long and there is a very high percebntage that it is the original paper sleeve! It seems somehow wrong to separate them!?

Am I the only way who just can't change a sleeve over in these such cases!?!

Thank you for listening...discuss!

Yes, sometimes we obsess over the most trivial details... but I agree, I have 45s that still have not been separated from their plain, tattered vintage original sleeve.

If the original sleeve is tattered I will ditch it & replace with a new plain one. If it is just split on the seams then I'll tape the seams up & leve them together. I like the concept of 45s staying with their original company sleeve (plain ones don't bother me to discard quite as much), but if the sleeve is unsalvageable then I have no issues with replacing it.