The Death of the CD Binder

i miss cassettes a lot

^^^ my parents have one of these for VHS tapes.

I had a lot of these years ago. Was looking through two really old ones last night and found CDs I don't even remember hearing let alone owning. They suck as far as storage goes as evidenced by the fact that a lot of those CDs are so scratched they don't even work anymore.

I keep my burned CDs full of mp3s, promo cds without cases and CDs that I've lost the cases to (Likely CDs that once resided in a binder) right on a handy dandy spindle.

while I was posting today some fucker took all mine & reviewed them on p-fork, the third binder deserved way better than a 5.4 imo

(xxxxxxpost) I have two of those right in front of me now. And to my right are six CD binders.

hate these fuckin things tbh

Also three of these...
http://images.maplin.co.uk/300/a81gu_open.jpg

I owned the exact cassette case PP posted!

i have so many cd books/binders. never had one ripped off. i would be all like :( if that happened.

ha, i always hated tape formats

With most things - music and movies - if it's tucked away in a binder or box, I'm less likely to think of listening to/watching it than if it's in plain view in a stack or on a shelf.

xp velko: so do thieves - when my car was broken into last year, they didn't take any of my cassettes.

When thieves hit my parents' house, they specifically stole the stereo and the tapes/CDs. They unplugged the VCR but left it in the middle of the family room floor, but unwired the stereo and stole that and the speakers downstairs. I'm pretty sure it was some asshole I knew from school who knew we were going to be gone and wanted to piss me off; fortunately I was an organized child and had a spreadsheet with all of my albums on it saved on my computer so something like 95% of what was missing was returned.

(should be noted that everyone in town knew my whole family was going to be gone for two weeks and we live literally in the middle of the woods, so thieves basically had totally uninterrupted free time to steal everything in the entire house)

sorry you did not enjoy my hilarious practical joke dan

lol I had that wood-pannelled cassette holder too

everything should have wood pannelling imho

my cd binders were never alive so they could not die

why would you want a case of cd's that have been burnt??????

John you scamp! :-D Can we have my dead brother's stereo back now?

while I was posting today some fucker took all mine & reviewed them on p-fork, the third binder deserved way better than a 5.4 imo

I heard the 5.4 rating was a typo - was meant to be a 4.5. Now that it's up there for 100,000 pasty white indie rock fans, it's hardly worth changing. Be thankful for what you've got, etc.

were they pasty to begin with, or are J0hn's CD binders responsible for ... the resultant paste?

left one of these on a bus circa xmas '01, including my freshly bought copies of Expansion Team and Iron Flag.

and i've been enjoying them ever since :p

When I was still living in New Orleans, I decided to put all my cd's in binders. There are many problems involved but most annoyingly, the cd's stuck to the pages and damaged many of the discs by ripping off the paint from the top sides of the disc. The booklets were all shredded too. If you live in a hot place, do not use these books. If you are someone who values your collection, do not use these books. Worst idea ever. I do use them for burned cd's now that I live in a cooler climate but i'll never put another disc i purchased in one of those horrible things.

f you are someone who values your collection, do not use these books. Worst idea ever.

Seconding everyone who says this will scratch your CDs. Do not do this; keep them in the jewel cases.

no--use the binders--they're handy for thieves

Alright, if you're a thief fan, use the binders. Hail to the (binder) thief, y'all.

Seriously though, I was just lucky that I did this when I was 15 and only had twenty CDs, so not too much got wrecked.

I also once owned a wonderfully defective CD player that actually cut circular grooves in most of my CDs. That was fantastic!

I've got one of those boxes where you press the tab and the disc SPROINGS out.

i feel like an asshole for earnestly posting in this thread not knowing it was a parody joint

ditto

I thought these were mainly used for mixes....to take on the road with you (I don't have an ipod, I hate them)!!

just don't leave it in the car!

Seconding everyone who says this will scratch your CDs. Do not do this; keep them in the jewel cases.

I got rid of all my jewel cases 7 years ago. None of my CDs have been actually damaged. Sure, they have some surface scratches, but nothing that prevents play.

We also keep our whole dvd collection in CD binders, and haven't ever had a problem.

I think the deal is if you get a binder, be careful that you don't go across your cds with a rusty nail en route from the jewel case to the binder. they will get scratched if you do that.

important piece of info often overlooked

i feel like an asshole for earnestly posting in this thread not knowing it was a parody joint

all are welcome in this thread.

what kinnd of cd binders are your favorite? i've gotten some from ikea that have really done the trick.

So that's what I've been doing wrong! xp

I think the deal is if you get a binder, be careful that you don't go across your cds with a rusty nail en route from the jewel case to the binder. they will get scratched if you do that.

J0hn drops a truth bomb.

I wonder, are the people with scratched CDs using limited edition binders made out of steel wool??? I have never had this problem.

Maybe this was a problem with binders from, oh, 1999? Or perhaps I just bought a shitty binder or didn't know how to take care of my CDs when I was 15?

I haven't used a binder for my records in ten years. RIP.

Oh dude, yeah. They came out with new cd binder technologies after that.

Hahaha, fuck you. :-)

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.