That kind of sticker is kind of a mixed blessing, when you're giving an album as a gift. I remember once gifting my dad a CD with Columbia's "The Nice Price" sticker, and he said, "I see you bought this at... 'The Nice Price'."
― Spry at 78 (morrisp), Wednesday, 9 October 2019 19:20 (four years ago) link
XP Sometimes MCA would go further with that. There's a budget version of Goodbye Yellow Brick Road that's just the two records in a wide sleeve, eliminating all the gatefold art.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 9 October 2019 19:22 (four years ago) link
Yep, they did that with '80s reissues of '70s reissues of early Who records, too. My Generation and Magic Bus used to come in a gatefold, but in the '80s they crammed two records into a single sleeve, with a sheet of paper illustrating that which had previously been the inner gatefold art.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 9 October 2019 19:25 (four years ago) link
Oh man you guys are gonna love thishttps://www.instagram.com/vinyl_record_hype_sticker/― piscesx, Wednesday, October 9, 2019 12:14 PM
brilliant. followed.
xpost: i hate when they cheaped out on the gatefold cover.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Wednesday, 9 October 2019 19:28 (four years ago) link
https://imgur.com/IogWTqt
― umsworth (emsworth), Wednesday, 9 October 2019 20:39 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/IogWTqt.jpg
― umsworth (emsworth), Wednesday, 9 October 2019 20:40 (four years ago) link
Not a hype sticker, but in light of the this thread, I had to laugh when this album art was just presented to me. https://imgur.com/Z4O6VoJ
― bendy, Thursday, 10 October 2019 03:06 (four years ago) link
I save them too! I try to peel them off and affix then to the jewel case or sometimes in a black spot inside the booklet. When that fails, I'll cut them out with the plastic and insert them into the booklet.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 10 October 2019 03:34 (four years ago) link
My CD copy of Flowers of Romance has a ‘Compact Price’ insert on the bottom right of the cover, but it’s actually part of the booklet? Not sure how common this particular phenomenon is.
― Master of Treacle, Thursday, 10 October 2019 03:55 (four years ago) link
A lot of early MCA CDs had the budget-line badging added to the cover art, and the back page of the booklet had an ad for other Albums in the series.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 10 October 2019 04:03 (four years ago) link
That’s just rude
― drunk on hot toddies (morrisp), Thursday, 10 October 2019 04:25 (four years ago) link
REVIVE! Got some CDs by the band War in the mail just now! Whoohoo!!!
https://i.imgur.com/QEYaaUq.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/tuTiVd9.jpg
― things repeat forever and there never is a remedy (Austin), Wednesday, 2 June 2021 21:49 (two years ago) link
RIP
https://i.imgur.com/QSmP7g1.jpg
― things repeat forever and there never is a remedy (Austin), Sunday, 27 June 2021 17:51 (two years ago) link