Hello, I was wondering about something that happened to a record (https://www.discogs.com/FFF-Coco-Bryce-Double-Dragon-EP/master/1189338) of mine. I got it a few months ago and have probably played the songs on it around 10 times, 20 maximum. The past few times I've played it I've noticed that some of the sounds on it (synthesizers?) have begun to sound warbly and distorted, unlike my first plays of the record and uploads of the music. I noticed this on my stereo setup, not the recording device, so it's not the recording device. If this means anything, which it may, the tracks are A2 and B2, so they're closer to the label. I also noticed in my recording that the distorted part is distorted only when other sounds are playing, i.e. when the sound is playing by itself there's no distortion. Am I:
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doing something seriously wrong, like having too heavy a tracking force or too much anti-skating? (I accidentally messed up the anti-skating a little while ago; I think it was before I noticed this)
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playing the record with a broken cartridge / stylus?
being ripped off by the seller? (The record was supposed to be in mint condition except with a generic sleeve; the record was out for a few years before I got it)
making a mountain out of a molehill over a normal-for-this-kind-of-music problem?
I also acquired a noise record (a record that has been mutilated by someone to sound like, well, noise) from a friend and have tried to play it a few times. I also have a tendency to drop the tonearm onto the record; could either of these break my stylus to the point where it plays a record wrong? I don't think that it's the stylus because I don't hear this on other records.
(Also, you can hear the distortion on A2 (it also occurs on B2) in this audio file: https://sndup.net/7726)