VINYL: Maybe it's time we had an intervention.

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01HNNWZ0MV43FF · 2025-03 · Reference

> As far as I know vinyl is toxic [VIDEO] "Vinyl: Maybe it's time we had an intervention" by Benn Jordan. tl;dw: He puts a VOC meter to a vinyl record and yep they're definitely toxic. Remember, if you smell something, it's going inside your body. That includes "new plastic smell", farts, etc. > This is just my objective opinion based on a whole lotta research... if you're an avid vinyl collector whose pee-pee hurts after watching this video, understand that my pee-pee hurts a whole lot more.

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devnullbrain · 2025-03 · Reference

Books don't give us cancer like records do. Unfortunately, the PVC used will off-gas even when they're not being played[1], so this even applies to the 48%[2] of record buyers who never play them. [1] [VIDEO] [2] [LINK]

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ReactiveJelly · 2021-10 · Reference

Re: vinyl records Has anyone proven / disproven Benn Jordan's video about why vinyl is basically poisonous? [VIDEO] I haven't watched it for a while but the summary is: - Vinyl records outgas harmful things that you can detect with air quality meters. (VOCs I think) - You can't dispose of them because they can't be recycled and aren't supposed to go in landfills. So buying new records from new bands violates the "reduce, reuse, recycle" principle "It's just that it's _so_ lame and uncool to shit on vinyl..." "This is just my objective opinion based on a whole lotta research... If you're an avid collector whose peepee hurts after watching this video, understand that my peepee hurts a whole lot more."

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