My friend that runs a record store got word to me that he had bought a large jazz collection... mostly new high quality repressings. So another friend an I picked up 15-20 titles, many of which are Blue Note Classic Series with good reviews.
A week goes by and my buddy calls Hto ask me to listen to one of his- Herbie Hancock "Speak like a child". One side distorted, and he wanted to get my 2 cents. Got half way though side 1 and it was clearly not right. Got up to take a look and an inch long pile of crap was building up about mid record.
Same thing on side two. I had assumed he'd cleaned, but he hadn't.
I've never seen so much debris come out of the groves of what looked like a clean, new record.
The store owner said it was getting to be a problem with all vinyl, though he was surprised to hear about it from Blue Note. He blamed the fact that all presses worldwide are running 24/7 to meet demand.
