Thanks everyone (again) for your input, and cleaver and entertaining responses!! I do have a Gingko cover but am a little . . . let's say skittish about dropping that bad boy over a spinning record. Uberwaltz, he previously did some damage to my Maggies but as mijostyn noted, the socks can be replaced. They are now wrapped in a plastic "barbed wire."
Oh, and schmitty1, it was Zeppelin IV.
Jack also says "thank you" for not being too harsh.