The Collection
This is not a discography. It is a record of the actual physical copies on the shelf: where they were pressed, what is scratched into the dead wax, how they reached the collection, what condition they are really in and, most importantly, what they actually sound like.
The copy matters
Two copies of the same album can have completely different stories. Different plants. Different metalwork. Different previous owners. Different scars. Sometimes a record looks rough and sounds immaculate; sometimes the opposite happens. That is why every entry here treats the copy itself as the thing being documented.
Three condition grades, not one
LP Visual
What the physical vinyl looks like under proper light.
LP Playback
How the copy actually performs when the needle goes down.
Sleeve
The condition of the outer jacket, recorded separately from the disc.
What each record page will grow into
Pressing and production story, runout and dead-wax markings, identification evidence, copy-specific oddities, condition and listening notes, acquisition story, research sources and anything else worth remembering. Some pages will be sparse at first. That is deliberate. The fun is filling them in as the record gets played and investigated.