When I bought my copy (the vinyl) the guy in the shop looked at me with a stern face and said "Keep the zipper open, you hear?"
In that position the dent in Exile, and in Sticky Fingers itself, was exactly where the hole in the middle of the records was, so my copies sat next to each other for decades without getting damaged.
The 1994 Virgin reissue, with zipper, has a plastic boxlike thingy around it (in fact they all have), so no problem there.

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When I bought my copy (the vinyl) the guy in the shop looked at me with a stern face and said "Keep the zipper open, you hear?"
In that position the dent in Exile, and in Sticky Fingers itself, was exactly where the hole in the middle of the records was, so my copies sat next to each other for decades without getting damaged.
The 1994 Virgin reissue, with zipper, has a plastic boxlike thingy around it (in fact they all have), so no problem there.

so let me get this straight. SomeGuy on the internet tells us to pull our zipper down and we won't be damaged.

Come on man, I wasn't born yesterday!

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SomeGuy
When I bought my copy (the vinyl) the guy in the shop looked at me with a stern face and said "Keep the zipper open, you hear?"
In that position the dent in Exile, and in Sticky Fingers itself, was exactly where the hole in the middle of the records was, so my copies sat next to each other for decades without getting damaged.
The 1994 Virgin reissue, with zipper, has a plastic boxlike thingy around it (in fact they all have), so no problem there.

so let me get this straight. SomeGuy on the internet tells us to pull our zipper down and we won't be damaged.

Come on man, I wasn't born yesterday!

Imagine, I went like, is this guy (in the record store) joking? But he was dead serious! Probably had had a few customers returning the album or so.

I've always just kept a piece of corrugated cardboard between Sticky Fingers and Exile. The 12" x 12" cardboard inserts used as filler in record mailers are perfect for this task.

By stange coincidence I commented in this zip damage on a Hi Fi forum just the the other day.
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I's amazing how many copies of Exile bear the scars of a SF zip, indicating previous ownership by a Stones fan with tidy record filing habits

Haha... I do recognize the problem here. After realizing the damage done to EXILE cover, I decided to remove the Zipper album out of my vinyl collection, and located it somewhere else. Which had the consequence that from time to time, I didn't know where the album was. Probably for that reason I might have listened STICKY FINGERS less than I have of other Big Four albums... (Which makes me wonder right now, where the hell the album is now....)

- Doxa

The only damage on my SF zipper / the album, I managed to do myself. Guess what, the zipper got stuck...

I have other copies now, but it's not the same. My first SF, one of the first Stones-albums I purchased myself, looks very weird

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The only damage on my SF zipper / the album, I managed to do myself. Guess what, the zipper got stuck...

I have other copies now, but it's not the same. My first SF, one of the first Stones-albums I purchased myself, looks very weird

He,he,he

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Too funny

I have two copies. I place a corrugated cardboard shipping panel on the front side when I put them in the poly sleeve. My copy of Exile does have 30+ year old impressions on it however.

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Doxa
Haha... I do recognize the problem here. After realizing the damage done to EXILE cover, I decided to remove the Zipper album out of my vinyl collection, and located it somewhere else. Which had the consequence that from time to time, I didn't know where the album was. Probably for that reason I might have listened STICKY FINGERS less than I have of other Big Four albums... (Which makes me wonder right now, where the hell the album is now....)

- Doxa

OK, so what I've now is take the album and file it on top of the other vinyls, zipper up, so while it isn't filed chronologically anymore, I know where it is! I have to admit I have a few copies so I've also filed some of them with corrugated cardboard in-between, and I have one copy on a music stand.