25+ Vinyl records that have seen better days: 'There are only 100 vinyls of this album and the postal service broke mine in half'

You know that old saying, "You sound like a broken record?" It means that a person is repeating themself too much, just like a skipping record that can't get past that tiny scratch into the vinyl. That's just one way to damage a record, though, as these people found out.

The "broken record" sentiment unfortunately applies to these vinyl albums that have seen better days! Some of them simply couldn't handle the United States Postal system. Those boxes get thrown around constantly, so it's no wonder that a fragile album would struggle to make it to you in one piece. Many record shippers wrap them in crazy amounts of bubble wrap to ensure they arrive intact. It can be done! But clearly not everyone ships their merchandise that way.

Some people even bought limited-edition pressings of records. With some albums, only 100 or 500 records will be pressed, often with a cool color variant or a special album insert included. But once that album is pressed, it's finished forever! If that record breaks in the mail, you're just out of luck, because there isn't going to be an extra album to replace it.

Check out some vinyl record accidents that'll make you appreciate your own favorite albums even more. Then, read about this daughter who got a $400 revenge on her father after getting tired of his demands for her to be his personal chauffeur: '[She] drives him to the most expensive restaurant in town.'

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Completely wasteful

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Not this being a $4 album...

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Someone's toddler had a field day with this one.
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Did an animal get into this? Was this mailed with a live squirrel inside?

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This is a cute way to display stickers... but that record is done for

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Once some records are pressed, they're never made again

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It's incidents like this that feel extra tragic, since there's just no way to replace it.
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Timber!

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Bad bad kitty

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It's a cool decoration now

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Would this work?

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That looks like an expensive fall

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Let's hope these records survived their tumble!
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Did they just toss the record in a box, no sleeve, no packaging at all?!

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Grab the duster

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This is the way Cookie Monster eats cookies

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This is cute marketing...

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Let's hope it's marketing and not just someone trying to get aesthetic pictures of records that are now unplayable.
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Can't Help Falling [In Love]

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It has a "Certified Frustration Free" stamp

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So that did not live up to it's guarantee! Good news though: this person reports that they got it replaced within 48 hours.
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What a beautiful color variant, too bad it's in shambles

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This record may have had some time in the sun

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Yo dawg, I heard you like records

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So I got you this record holder made from a record to hold your records.
Honestly, it looks fragile!
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Looks like this person lives in the middle of nowhere

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If only the mail carrier had thought to just… leave it on the ground beside the mailbox. If only!