We have ours. Some lyric sheets are gone. Most are in OK shape, except where the cats clawed the cover-edges. We had two needles at one point-- one for real good LP's in good shape, and another for the more atritted ones, so we don't wreck the good needle and thus damage whatever it plays on next.

Do you all know about Kingdom Inc.? They are an international company located right near us. Their bread and butter item is blank cassette tape. And CHEAP, but GOOD QUALITY, in bulk. Also available are those nifty plastic tape albums with two to 12 pockets and an outer sleeve for your jacket and spine label. Blank tape labels by the sheet for laser-print or by roll, or printed labels to order, and J-cards and norelco boxes and poly boxes...

They supply churches for their cassette ministries all around the world, and have a variety of qualities, and will send sample blank tapes out for new customers. They are serious about quality and refuse to sell that crap that you think of when you think of cheap tape. A lot of the ministries in thier cutomer base have sophisticated music and sound going on. The company's profit comes from the volume that results from connecting the best suppliers and high-volume customers who want GOOD TAPE that will preserve its contents until... the second coming! *G*

They also sell high-speed cassette tape duplicators and a variety of sound equipment. Good people too. FAST shipping. In fact I used to work there and may be headed back there soon.

There is also a division that duplicates audio, video, and CD's to order, including printing of packaging materials and assembly.

They don't have a great website, yet, but are at:

www.kingdominc.com

Free catalogs, very entertaining too. Technical articles on sound equipment. And a wealth of ideas on how to promote distribution-- ideas from church that can be transferred into other settings such as club, tavern, or tailgate sales.

My plan has always been to buy a couple of boxed 100's of medium-quality tape and copy those LP's when I have some time (which would be now), to go into albums. And then I'll xerox the covers and lyric sheets and liner notes to put in a binder. We also make backup copies of most of our CD's, onto the cheaper tape stock, because car tunes are how we learn new material but managing CDs in the car is too tricky for me. For those, I am not after sound quality, just the songs please. And I don't waste money on boxes for those either.

Thanks for starting this thread. I have been wondering what other people are doing with their LP's, and have wanted to pass on this resource for blank tape for a long time.

~Susan