The Record Butler Vinyl Record Holder & Cleaner Soft Velvet Pads Grip Your Vinyl

I heard to not handle your vinyl with your hands as it can get grease on your vinyl and affect it overtime. So I bought these after hearing positive feedback and want to provide my feedback to support those other reviews. Highly recommend these if you do not have any soft fleece cloth laying around!

I take meticulous care of my records. Not only because I want to get the best sound quality from my albums, but also because I want to maintain the integrity of my stylus and extend its lifetime. No matter how hard I tried to handle my albums with care, I would still occasionally get smudges and fingerprints on them. I have also almost dropped a few records while trying to "carefully" slip them into their sleeves. I tried using gloves which proved too inconvenient and soft cloths which proved too clumsy. That's when I found the Record Butler. It may be nothing more than a $4.50 (2 for $9) piece of felt lined cardboard, but it's just about the best $9 I've spent on Amazon. I keep it next to my turntable all the time. Now I can pick up and re-sleeve albums with care and ease. I liked mine so much that I gave the second one to my father. He is, after all, the one who got me into vinyl in the first place.

A VERY SIMPLE, RELATIVELY NEW PRODUCT, THAT WORKS WELL ON LP'S and goes a long way to cutting down the kind of mild damage that can be easily removed with a little TLC. They do take a little getting used to when you are first beginning to use the BUTLER, but you catch on to using these grips quickly and before long you are handling LPs without leaving any kind of tracks behind you at all.

These are good and I use them all the time. I do find myself wishing they were a little thicker so you could apply more pressure to your grip and clamp the record more firmly. For the price, it's good. There's also 2 of them, so I keep one for dirty record cleaning and one for taking clean records off the turntable.Note it's a little cumbersome getting the LP off the turntable with these. You may need to lift the record slightly with your finger tip, then slide the butler under. Still works though, and is definitely an improvement from having nothing.

I'm pretty anal retentive about dirt and oils on my vinyl. I've read maybe one (hundred) too many articles about how this can damage the record, the needle, and apparently world peace, so I try to be really careful. Sadly, everyone else I know isn't as (insane?) conscientious about fingerprints, so they were touching my precious grooves with their human hands (I don't let the dog flip the records) and getting prints everywhere. I bought two sets of these and they work like a charm. They are enough of a novelty and kind of cute, so everyone is happy to use them. I haven't had to flick anyone on the forehead recently for handling the vinyl wrong, so it's been a win-win for everyone (although, if I'm honest, I miss flicking people's foreheads).Anyhooooo... these are great. Buy them.

I loving using these to handle and change out our records from the player. Adds peace of mind that I'm not directly touching the data portion of the record.

Just got into Vinyl within the last year, but after buying the Record Butler, I'm adamant to say I will never physically handle my own LPs with my oil laden hands unless absolutely neccasary.I thought at first this was just a marketing scheme, but after using the Genie for around a week it is substantially better both in handling in comparison to barely grasping the edges of an LP and in the amount of dust /hand oil that would come in contanct with my records (which are majorly 40+ years old).Not sure how long a pair of these Butlers will last, but will definitely buy another pair when these wear out.

What can I say? I hate picking up records by hand, as you leave oils on the record everytime you do. It's such a pain picking them up from the center or trying to grab the 1/8" area of unpressed vinyl around the edge of the record. This product solves those problems simply for a fair price. No muss, no fuss.Update: This product is so good I no longer ever handle records without it. I'd give it six stars if I could. Simple, effective, and essential.