Metal Pet Peeves

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

At least it's more replaceable than, say, Realms of Chaos!

[Eoin McLove]

    

[Thorn]

Yeah, pretty sure I saw Darragh has copies if you really want to replace it.

[Barnacle Billy]

Vinyl (Megaton Sword, Niralet EP) just slipped out of my hand and in my panicked efforts to catch it I merely shoved it into the metal corner of the turntable. Lovely gash through the first two tracks now 

If you have a magnifying glass, or something similar. You can use a toothpick to rub over the scratch if it's not too deep.
It should hopefully take away the debris either side of the scratch enough to allow the record not to skip. At the very worst, you'll merely have a crackle at the affected area of the record.
If the record won't play, you have nothing to lose really.
Rub the toothpick over and back on the scratch, going with the groove of the record.