Me:
- Opening it. That feeling of pulling the shrinkwrap off for the first time and easing out the inner sleeve is level on my pleasure-scale with eating chocolate. (And I'm fat and I love chocolate.)
- I hope it's not pressed off centre. 29 years with digital as a primary souce makes me hugely perceptive of wow, and annoyed by it. Several LPs that I've owned for decades I find I can't listen to now because of wow, but at the time of buying them I'm not even sure I noticed it.
- Will it sound good. In 2010 I bought my first 7" single for over 20 years, it was one of the 'record store day' records and I quickly realised it probably wasn't intended for actually playing. It was brand new but sounded like it had already been played repeatedly on a 78rpm gramophone. The vinyl was painfully thin and (mildly) warped but the main reason it sounded so bad was probably because it had been pressed using worn-out stampers.