The Death of the CD Binder

These things are ugly and cumbersome and largely pointless now. The point of buying CDs in physical format is partly for the sleeves etc - a CD is really just a piece of plastic that holds data. What's the advantage of one of these over an iPod full of high-quality MP3s?

if you sell an ipod to someone on the street, you only make one sale

if you sell from an entire binder full of cd's to people on the street, you can make multiple sales

xxpost: I was being entirely earnest

They act as a decoy for your expensive china and silverware if someone breaks into your house

In all honesty, I use mine more for computer backup stuff than I do CDs. I stopped carrying music in them after the travel debacle where I left one on a plane and never recovered it.

Really, kingkongvsgodzilla? (I wasn't really mad, btw, I was just jokingly swearing.) But when you said that, I realized you're probably right . . . I don't think anything's changed with the material they use on the inside of those binders, has it?

You need to get the ones with the little dots.

Do they all have little dots? I can't tell if you're making fun of me, but I guess it doesn't matter either way.

I gave a couple of these binders to the charity shop and now I really miss them.

heard this guy sells great binders. also mp3s.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/81/231853661_7b6e725c43.jpg?v=0

Dude sold me a binder full of Animal Collective bootlegs once. A+++++

poop

I don't think anything's changed with the material they use on the inside of those binders, has it?

I swear to god when I was planning to ditch all my jewel cases in May 2002, I went into best buy and there were two types of sleeves for CD binders - one that was normal, and one that had little dots. the little dots ones had a sticker on them that said something like "new cd-protecting dots designed by top engineers at microsoft" or something like that.

I think there are DJs that still use CDs, and they burn CD mixes and then put those in those CD binders and bring them to DJ on their CDDJ Set-ups. I've seen it before, I swear.

the cd-protecting dots are an RIAA hoax intended to ruin your collection & make you have to re-buy it

however if you scratch them open, they contain ice cream

http://calendar.swarthmore.edu/calendar/displaymedia.aspx?whatToDo=picture&id=1192

i got one of these in my car, it's the face of a dog

― meme-first attitude (J0rdan S.), Monday, July 27, 2009 3:28 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i have no idea what this means

thank you Dan for making me ruin fifteen CDs in a dippin dots craving frenzy

if you tape your collection, be sure to BREAK OFF the tabs on top so you don't accidentally record over them. VERY important.

these are probably ok if they're small-ish but one of the dumbest things i ever did was pack a huge-ass caselogic full of cds and liner notes when i was 14.

If you plan on hauling them around in your car, they end up being pretty unwieldy.

couldn't find a picture of a dog cd binder but I did find this:

http://rookery2.viary.com/storagev12/795000/795201_cd35_625x1000.jpg

hmmmmm....

http://www.sewsoft.com/images/CD%20Wallets/Tails/doggone_main.gif

got a human enough CD binder but my face is a doggy

The thing I hate most about binders is all these bands hire moron graphic designers who think they're clever and don't put the fucking name of the band or album on the goddamn cd.

Yeah. I had two CDs that just have pictures of clouds on them. A few that were just plain black.

"Who is the plain pink and who is the plain tan?"

forgot about this until just now, but the caselogic world headquarters building is just minutes from my house. true story.

What's their parking lot look like?

kind of like this, but with carshttp://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tfGC7tOlrdk/R8xKYlQnp7I/AAAAAAAACb8/fI8F8MWDDso/s400/case-logic-cd-wallet-binder.png

When will they make a CD binder that's big enough to hold my CD binders?

I'm going to make a Maurice Binder joke...
http://www.james-bond007.de/assets/images/01A00040.JPG
There, done.

That's a reference, not a joke.

Wait, are you Seth MacFarlane?

It's a joke because his name is pronounced "bin-der" not "bind-er".

Wait, are you Seth MacFarlane?

No.

My mistake.

http://static.tvguide.com/MediaBin/Galleries/Imported/BioPix/A/bio17/mike_binder01.jpg

I swear to god when I was planning to ditch all my jewel cases in May 2002, I went into best buy and there were two types of sleeves for CD binders - one that was normal, and one that had little dots. the little dots ones had a sticker on them that said something like "new cd-protecting dots designed by top engineers at microsoft" or something like that.

― kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, July 28, 2009 12:46 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

Oh wow. Sorry for assuming you were mocking me! That's nuts.

And contra what some people are saying, I'm pretty sure my case did scratch my CDs. But it was cheap and poorly-designed.

I've got a complete recitation of the Qur'an in this form.

Well not strictly a binder. You can't add or take out pages in this one.

Hipster Runoff: Ode to a Fallen Bro of a Product: The CD Binder

The problem with the CD binder is that when you leave it places you lose all your CDs. Not that I have ever done that.