for xmas this year my brother brandon gave me a gift certificate to a cool record store in huntington beach that i'd never been to before. so i went yesterday and it was like going to goodwill times a hundred, cuz it was all good stuff and very reasonably priced. i got a lot of fun stuff for ze olde fisher price player - johnny cash, the gogos, elvis, wham!, neil diamond, oooo and that tina turner with tiny dancer on it!

what was superawesome, possibly the one i was most excited about, was that madonna one from that old dick tracy movie. what's irritating is this - it's shrinkwrapped, so it's possibly a brand new record, there's no visible scratches at all anywhere on either side, but it skips like a girl on her way to kindergarten. and it's not just a couple seconds from one song. like every song on both sides is like that. i've got records that look much worse but play fine all the way through, what the hell gives?

friends with record players, what should i do? i really don't want to return it if i don't have to, i don't think they had another one. gaynations.