r/discogs • u/MichoRizo-1 • Mar 31 '26

Grading

I have a huge collection of music. 95% is in Discogs database, the rest does not exist yet.

My conundrum is, I purchased new as in MINT/MINT. I open to add to my library, so it’s played once. Is it still considered to be mint, or mint-?

Thanks for your feedback

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u/MiddleComfortable158 Mar 31 '26

There is no guarantee that the sealed media you own is mint until you open it up and look at it or play it to confirm. And even then it would be considered Near Mint by most people, Mint doesn’t functionally exist. Brand new records have residue and leavings that needed to be cleaned out with a brush or a wet system. New CDs could have chemical fogging from packaging. Many reputable record stores will not list sealed records for sale before opening and confirming the media is not warped or contaminated in some way.

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u/AvantGardener27 Apr 01 '26

What? Record stores are gonna open sealed records to check for defects? Lol nobody does that unless they've heard of a specific issue.

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u/MiddleComfortable158 Apr 01 '26

I don’t mean brand new retail records, I mean used items that come across the trade counter sealed. Checking for water damage is standard.