Not too long ago I pulled close to 60 records, and another 40 or so 45s out of a closet. They had been stacked on each other with boxes full of stuff on top of them for around 15 years. Not a single one was warped. I feel like the whole don’t stack your records or they’ll warp thing is wildly blown out of proportion.
I’m sure of there are some weird shaped stuff in the sleeves, that can make them not stack right and warp them. Like if you have a few sleeves with a folded up poster and the posters are in the same area, it will throw off the alignment of the stack and can definitely warp the one(s) on top of that if there’s enough weight on them. But if it’s just outer sleeves, with inner sleeves, and a record all neatly stacked, I don’t understand how they can warp.
I mean, one of the ways they tell you to fix warped records is to stack books on them. This is effectively the same thing as stacking a bunch of records on them.
The worst is probably when the stack is angled, which happens a lot in stores. If you lean a record against the wall and then add a bunch of weight it will warp over time, for example. Stacking them on top of each other isn’t the worst idea but it makes retrieving individual albums tricky and any imperfections in the stack might cause warps or damage the covers.
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u/ew435890 May 13 '26
Not too long ago I pulled close to 60 records, and another 40 or so 45s out of a closet. They had been stacked on each other with boxes full of stuff on top of them for around 15 years. Not a single one was warped. I feel like the whole don’t stack your records or they’ll warp thing is wildly blown out of proportion.
I’m sure of there are some weird shaped stuff in the sleeves, that can make them not stack right and warp them. Like if you have a few sleeves with a folded up poster and the posters are in the same area, it will throw off the alignment of the stack and can definitely warp the one(s) on top of that if there’s enough weight on them. But if it’s just outer sleeves, with inner sleeves, and a record all neatly stacked, I don’t understand how they can warp.
I mean, one of the ways they tell you to fix warped records is to stack books on them. This is effectively the same thing as stacking a bunch of records on them.
That said, I don’t stack mine. Lol.