Dont you just hate stickers on CD's that wont come off?

Re: CDs which are shrinkwrapped

It's an extra layer of security protection in stores, to stop thieving gits steal CDs.

Rebecca, I'll have a word with my mother and tell her to stop putting those stickers on the library cds. I suspect she'll tell me to shut up though.

*ulp*

Nono, tell her that selling the cds on rocks and I do love them really, it's just my fault I always think, "Hey! Only three quid! I must own all of these CDs by people I've hardly even heard of now!"

Oh, and congratulate her for having found the strongest, most inlay-card-ripping glue in the universe.

(I am strangely proud that in the time between the library getting the Ligament album and me buying it from them it was taken out for the grand total of one week, by, er, me. Hmm)

I will congratulate her, and she will say 'what, no, I don't do the music section, silly, I do the main library' and I will say 'you led me to believe you covered the whole library, what else have you been lying to me about?'. I am always strangely impressed by the selection of cds there; it seems quite varied.

This is kind of obvious, but then it took me a couple of years to figure out:
Easy way to take off the barcode sticker on top of the cd case is to take cover of cd case off by the bottom hinge, and then pull the cover from the bottom of the cd case. The sticker still doesn't usually come off in one piece, but it will get you into the case faster.

I don't take them off, generally. I am often pleased when pulling out an old CD or record or tape at seeing that I only paid £2.99 for it, or something like that. If they came off dead easily (as with books, almost always) I might remove them, but it doesn't trouble me.

My favorite- buy CDs online, they come shrinkwrapped (argh) with the security stickers across the top under the shrinkwrap (AAARRRGGHHHHH!!). I always snap the hinges of the cases trying to pull it open a bit to tear the sticker. Sadly, I've discovered a cure for this problem, but it's far too expensive: amazon.co.uk CDs. No shrinkwrap, no security stickers on most of them! If only there was free international shipping, and the exchange rate wasn't so expensive....