― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Sunday, 7 March 2004 19:23 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 7 March 2004 19:25 (twenty years ago) link
My Spectrum gel-pack is still nice and gooey. Slayer put out a nice blood-gel pack once.
― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 7 March 2004 19:27 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 7 March 2004 19:30 (twenty years ago) link
Now that I've finally got at the disc I feel more like playing Hüsker Dü than I do Múm.
― Snnap Dragon (snnap dragon), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 16:04 (twenty years ago) link
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 16:13 (twenty years ago) link
― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 16:20 (twenty years ago) link
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 16:27 (twenty years ago) link
My current buggabear is the metal Fabriclive cases.
― Jedmond (Jedmond), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 16:27 (twenty years ago) link
― shookout (shookout), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 16:34 (twenty years ago) link
― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 16:35 (twenty years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 16:42 (twenty years ago) link
― Sean Witzman (trip maker), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 16:47 (twenty years ago) link
― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 17:03 (twenty years ago) link
bottleskup flenkenkenmike sucked... like the aluminum tunes packaging but worse... which, the LP copy of AT was ace. no sweat at all.
i hate all those cheap cases were the teeth break easily and cd shakes around inside. lame.
lot's of noise bands think it's just peachy to release stuff in weird packaging... it's a real scourge to deal with. i've got a whole shelf full of over-sized and oddly shaped cd packages. new faggot cunts put theirs in a cloth sleeve with a button. it's actually kind of nice, but still unweildy.
warp's use of book-style jackets is neat, but annoying to pay for. i remember the first one being gallo's record and it fit his 50s crooner thing and the old style LP jackets, but to see broadcast and boards of canada do it sort of lost the point to me.
was it aphex twin who had that odd 1.5-2 12" LPs wide monster lp thingy? it was like 12.5 x 25 inches or something. ugh.
odd shaped cds like the chinese stars annoy me too. if you don't have center-locked cd player, you have to hope you centered it in your computer's cd tray... and in general it's just gonna bitch and send it back out.
why don't bands go cheap and spend the extra on a dinner and a movie. really! treat yourself!m.
― msp, Tuesday, 13 April 2004 17:40 (twenty years ago) link
― JC (JC A.), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:14 (twenty years ago) link
― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:25 (twenty years ago) link
― Dude (The Yellow Dart), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:31 (twenty years ago) link
― Lil' Fancy Kpants (The K is Silent) (ex machina), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:42 (twenty years ago) link
― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 19:05 (twenty years ago) link
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 20:02 (twenty years ago) link
DAMN YOU EDDIE VEDDER!!!!!! DAMN YOOOOOOU!!!
― Dude (The Yellow Dart), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 20:26 (twenty years ago) link
― Lil' Fancy Kpants (The K is Silent) (ex machina), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 20:34 (twenty years ago) link
― Dude (The Yellow Dart), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 20:35 (twenty years ago) link
But it's the Fall! What are you expecting?
What pisses me off (while not a bad design) is Rykodisc's re-issues of the Mission of Burma back catalogue. It has a section saying 'The green tinted jewel case is trademarked' or something. How can you trademark colouring something green!?
― Sasha (sgh), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 00:13 (twenty years ago) link
Aesthetically, it's digipaks all the way. They're simply more gorgeous, almost every time. I have more problems with jewel cases breaking (those horrible tabs that hold the cover onto the bottom) than I do with any cardboard cases.
― derrick (derrick), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 00:18 (twenty years ago) link
― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 00:21 (twenty years ago) link
― Ian Riese-Moraine (Eastern Mantra), Friday, 4 February 2005 00:45 (nineteen years ago) link
-- cutty (holler@thegod.com ), March 5th, 2004. (2 trackbacks)
cd or vinyl? i quite like the cd packaging... refried ectoplasm is pretty similar
― chris andrews (fraew), Friday, 4 February 2005 01:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― chris andrews (fraew), Friday, 4 February 2005 01:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― chris andrews (fraew), Friday, 4 February 2005 01:12 (nineteen years ago) link
This is one of the rarer times I got the Japanese version of a release by a band that's not Japanese. No unglued holes. No complaints! And I got "Freestyle Dumpling", the best damn cover of The Fall's "Slates, Slags, etc" ever! (though minus "Seeperbold")
― donut christ (donut), Friday, 4 February 2005 01:15 (nineteen years ago) link
I thought the point of those was that they did break the CDs. Was it not BC/CR being all precious about vinyl?
― hmmm (hmmm), Friday, 4 February 2005 09:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 4 February 2005 09:53 (nineteen years ago) link
Still a fun lil album, though.
― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Monday, 24 July 2006 02:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Monday, 24 July 2006 02:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― HPSTRKRFT (haitch), Monday, 24 July 2006 03:03 (eighteen years ago) link
-- bill stevens (bscrubbin...), March 5th, 2004.
Ha ha. I actually went to school with the son of the guy who designed the hot side hot/cool side cool packaging and became a millionaire off of it. Son was an alcoholic, of course.
― cracktivity1 (cracktivity1), Monday, 24 July 2006 04:43 (eighteen years ago) link
the same thing seems to have happened to most copies of john dowie's factory 45
― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Monday, 24 July 2006 04:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Monday, 24 July 2006 09:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― a.b. (alanbanana), Monday, 24 July 2006 12:51 (eighteen years ago) link
Fucking shower caps stuck to the vinyl, leaving weird marks and making the record play shittily (that is, in a shit-like fashion).
But, you know, really excellent for keeping your weave together while bathing...
― fuckfuckingfuckedfucker (fuckfuckingfuckedfucker), Monday, 24 July 2006 15:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― Shooz (shooz), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 14:40 (eighteen years ago) link
I have a new winner. Amarkord is some Italian publisher that's recently put out a bunch of "cosmic" compilations put together by Daniele Baldelli. The two volumes covering the Baia Degli Angeli club have been top-notch packaging-wise- hardback book with a DVD-style hub for the CD inside the back cover- but the Cosmic 2xCD/book compilation is fucking WRETCHED. The discs are in paper sleeves in pockets in the front and back covers. The sleeve for CD1 was stuck in its pocket and had to be forced out, ripping the paper and making part of the tracklisting illegible, but that's not the real problem- these are the tightest sleeves in the history of sleeves, or paper, or tightness. I had to reach in with my thumb and forefinger wrapped in one of those disc-cleaning wipes to keep from getting thumbprints all over and YANK, and after a good couple of minutes finally got them out (scratching them to fuck in the process). I'm left wondering how they got inside the sleeves in the first place- they're so flimsy that putting them back in wasn't even within the realm of physical possibility, let alone an option, so they're sitting in a couple of spare jewel cases next to the book on my shelf.
The music's nice and the book is gorgeous, but they make you fucking work for it.
― Telephone thing, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 00:07 (seventeen years ago) link
My two most hated packages of the year thus far are Bjork's Volta (whose packaging woes are much storied) and Fulanito's Vacaneria! (In something like a mini-DVD case, with the liner notes on cardboard sheets glued to the case and the cd tends to come loose and float around the case).
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 04:40 (seventeen years ago) link
i haven't had any problems with the volta packaging.
― funny farm, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 06:28 (seventeen years ago) link
i've had more probs with the volta record...
― Charlie Howard, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 06:37 (seventeen years ago) link
Nah it's Volta. Just stupid. great if noone ever opens the fucking thing tho
― President Evil, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 08:34 (seventeen years ago) link
The "Volta" sleeve/design is actually great. Which makes it even worse that you have to move the sticker to be able to open the CD box at all.
― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 08:40 (seventeen years ago) link
That... is... why... it... sucks.
― President Evil, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 09:01 (seventeen years ago) link