| T O P I C R E V I E W |
| Joey Joe Jo Jr. Chabadoo |
Posted - 09/03/2007 : 09:32:10
I got it!
I really enjoy Julian Clark's childlish and expressionist touch of the cover and of the inner illustrations as well, the hand written lyrics in the booklet and the 'trompe l'oeil' effect of the sleeve. It works pretty well!
Of course I already hear coming the complaints about the small carboard format but it's a leitmotive around here I guess...
I enjoy the whole thing.
And the subtle new mixes of the songs!
Thanks Black family.
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| joe FITZ of molly BANG |
Posted - 04/07/2010 : 06:07:02
quote:
Originally posted by trobrianders
I prefer digipaks. Best of both worlds. I'd like to get some blank ones and get friends to design covers for me (ones that can draw)
Gatefold cardboard like FBF, 93-03 and Bluefinger aren't safe and jewel cases are just cheap and nasty.
Shame that Brood artwork is missing but anyway it's a nice touch that Bluefinger is a family affair.
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Ed is the hoo hoo
i concur. will all of that. I like the bluefinger album cover. and teen ager of the year. and svn fingers. and non stop erotic. but i think most of the rest could've been better. the 4ad stuff is some of the best covers ever.
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my band: www.myspace.com/mollybang
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| joe FITZ of molly BANG |
Posted - 04/07/2010 : 05:57:39
quote:
Originally posted by quadrophenic
Well...any time I get a CD in this kind of packaging, I copy it to a CD-R and keep the CD-R in a jewel case, and put the original on my shelf. I got tired of rebuying CDs that got scratched up from sliding in and out of the cardboard.
These sleeves are NOT more durable than digipaks... As far as paper-quality, they're pretty much the same...but they do LESS to protect your disc. The "scratch" problem is the most obvious... But if you're the type of person who occasionally ends up with a CD on the floor of their house or car (in my case, the latter), these cases are virtually worthless when it comes to keeping the CD--how should I say it--unbroken. Someone gets into your car and before you can say "Hey grab that CD off the floor before you..." It's "CRUNCH" and you've lost a CD. (It's happened to me at least three times.) The digipaks, with their plastic--even if the teeth are gone--at least provide a little support, and any crunching you hear is likely just the plastic and not your music.
Of course, personally, I prefer the jewel-cases. Best protection you can get for your CD, and I don't know why the current fashion is to avoid them...
I really dig the BlueFinger art. I just wish it'd been in a jewel case.
I always burn copies of my fave albums. and keep the original shiny and new on the shelf.
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my band: www.myspace.com/mollybang
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| Carl |
Posted - 10/30/2007 : 11:50:11
Crap. Ripped the cover a little taking the CD out!
"A little bit of this, and a little bit of that....trade secrets!" |
| debaserrr |
Posted - 10/24/2007 : 15:30:56
i like the pack, the cd is great, if julian drew all that, hes the coolest
"The arc of triumph!" |
| Surfer Rosarita |
Posted - 10/20/2007 : 10:20:09
Blank digipaks. What'll they think of next? I can really get used to this internet thing. |
| billgoodman |
Posted - 10/02/2007 : 13:29:51
thanks!
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BF: Mag ik Engels spreken? |
| trobrianders |
Posted - 10/02/2007 : 10:39:11
No luck. I searchd on 'blank digipak' but all sell in bulk. There was this one. Packs of 50 for £26
http://www.rivierapublishing.co.uk/acatalog/Digipaks.html
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Ed is the hoo hoo |
| billgoodman |
Posted - 10/01/2007 : 12:39:15
you need to order at least 200, that's a bit too much for me.
But thanks any way ttc! Do you know another site trobrianders?
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BF: Mag ik Engels spreken? |
| Tiny Team Concerts |
Posted - 09/30/2007 : 14:12:38
You can order blank white Digipaks from www.discmakers.com.
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Tiny Team Concerts
"Good music for nice people" |
| billgoodman |
Posted - 09/30/2007 : 08:39:17
quote:
Originally posted by trobrianders
I prefer digipaks. Best of both worlds. I'd like to get some blank ones and get friends to design covers for me (ones that can draw)
Gatefold cardboard like FBF, 93-03 and Bluefinger aren't safe and jewel cases are just cheap and nasty.
Shame that Brood artwork is missing but anyway it's a nice touch that Bluefinger is a family affair.
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Ed is the hoo hoo
where can you get those?
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BF: Mag ik Engels spreken? |
| Jason |
Posted - 09/29/2007 : 23:16:07
This question--the question of the financial burden of CD packaging--came up on the Matador Records forum awhile back and someone from the label responded that digipak packaging is more expensive than jewel case packaging. If you think about it, most seriously low-budget record releases are in jewel cases. It's mostly major labels and large independents (like a Matador) who issue many CDs in digipaks. |
| shineoftheever |
Posted - 09/29/2007 : 14:57:00
what is the cost differential between jewel cases and digipaks and gatefolds? it would seem digis are the most expensive because you have to print/fold/assemble including glue? it's not like you could get a blank digipak and run it through a printer, ot could you? gatefolds seem cheapest, however, you get the least amount of information. i like jewel case inserts with multi pages. a cd single in a full jewel case with only a single piece of 2-sided paper seems a waste. ie. hang on to your ego. i tried to get the digi edition for this reason, oh well....
The waxworks were an immensely eloquent dissertation on the wonderful ordinariness of mankind. |
| trobrianders |
Posted - 09/29/2007 : 14:05:50
I prefer digipaks. Best of both worlds. I'd like to get some blank ones and get friends to design covers for me (ones that can draw)
Gatefold cardboard like FBF, 93-03 and Bluefinger aren't safe and jewel cases are just cheap and nasty.
Shame that Brood artwork is missing but anyway it's a nice touch that Bluefinger is a family affair.
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Ed is the hoo hoo |
| Ziggy |
Posted - 09/29/2007 : 09:37:25
Bear in mind that it might have been tricky reaching a settlement with Brood's estate. |
| VoVat |
Posted - 09/29/2007 : 07:25:34
Jewel cases look a lot better on the shelf, but they DO break quite easily.
As for Bluefinger in particular, you'd think an album inspired by a painter would have more visual art. The handwritten lyrics are cool, though.
"If you doze much longer, then life turns to dreaming. If you doze much longer, then dreams turn to nightmares." |
| johnnyribcage |
Posted - 09/28/2007 : 18:03:28
I got mine a couple days after it came out, but I actually haven't listened to it. I hung it up on the wall next the rest of my music collection, which I have also never listened to. I don't even own a stereo, but I do have some lovely track lighting in my den.
I love this part... Yeah, we did it! |
| Jason |
Posted - 09/28/2007 : 17:31:27
quote:
Originally posted by quadrophenic
Of course, personally, I prefer the jewel-cases. Best protection you can get for your CD, and I don't know why the current fashion is to avoid them...
Some labels avoid jewel cases for environmental reasons.
Sony/BMG have adopted a no-jewel case policy for their CDs for that reason. |
| quadrophenic |
Posted - 09/28/2007 : 07:07:50
Well...any time I get a CD in this kind of packaging, I copy it to a CD-R and keep the CD-R in a jewel case, and put the original on my shelf. I got tired of rebuying CDs that got scratched up from sliding in and out of the cardboard.
These sleeves are NOT more durable than digipaks... As far as paper-quality, they're pretty much the same...but they do LESS to protect your disc. The "scratch" problem is the most obvious... But if you're the type of person who occasionally ends up with a CD on the floor of their house or car (in my case, the latter), these cases are virtually worthless when it comes to keeping the CD--how should I say it--unbroken. Someone gets into your car and before you can say "Hey grab that CD off the floor before you..." It's "CRUNCH" and you've lost a CD. (It's happened to me at least three times.) The digipaks, with their plastic--even if the teeth are gone--at least provide a little support, and any crunching you hear is likely just the plastic and not your music.
Of course, personally, I prefer the jewel-cases. Best protection you can get for your CD, and I don't know why the current fashion is to avoid them...
I really dig the BlueFinger art. I just wish it'd been in a jewel case. |
| coastline |
Posted - 09/27/2007 : 22:27:18
quote:
Originally posted by kfs
I really like the handwritten lyrics!
Maybe you could read them to me, kfs. FB's writing kills my eyes. Still, I'm grateful he included them. It's my silly fantasy that he did it because I made a post on here, begging him to do so.
 Please pardon me, for these my wrongs. |
| kfs |
Posted - 09/27/2007 : 05:44:00
I really like the handwritten lyrics! |
| Jason |
Posted - 09/26/2007 : 21:08:42
I like these cardboard sleeves and I think they're an improvement over digipaks. While digipaks today don't seem to be made with those fragile teeth anymore that made up the circular thing that holds the CD in place--those things that broke so easily and often 10 years ago and left you with a screwed up digipak that no longer held the CD properly--the improved design still feels vulnerable. Much more durable, for sure, but still susceptible to being broken and to manufacturing flaws like any other piece of plastic. A sleeve that the disc just slides into is better. Not much can happen--in terms of hurting their functionality--to those that you can't fix with scotch tape.
Some complain of scratches, but I don't have this experience. My Frank Black Francis discs that I bought three years ago, played often, and never transplanted to a jewel case still look fine. |
| darwin |
Posted - 09/26/2007 : 14:47:59
I bought it yesterday. The store had some under "Black Francis" and some others under "Black, Frank" about 6 inches from each other. $9.99. |
| Jefrey |
Posted - 09/26/2007 : 14:31:50
quote:
Originally posted by Carl
Took a quick look in a couple of music stores today, couldn't find it! It has been released over here, hasn't it?!
Anyone for knob Marmite?
It's really thin - maybe you couldn't see it. Then again, Equatorial Guinea has a slow mail system from what I hear.
Qu'ils aillent se faire foutre <-- yeah, what he said. |
| Carl |
Posted - 09/26/2007 : 14:24:09
Took a quick look in a couple of music stores today, couldn't find it! It has been released over here, hasn't it?!
Anyone for knob Marmite? |
| benji |
Posted - 09/11/2007 : 02:31:21
bought my copy today.
like the packaging a lot.
i like how the cd has no sticker on the front saying 'lead singer of seminal rock band the pixies' or somesuch.
all i can say, thank god for polio! brian |
| The King of Siam |
Posted - 09/10/2007 : 07:47:43
Got mine today! It looks and fells wonderful. Been waiting for this album since i first heard about it in April. And downloaded it at the same time. But the real thing is the best!
Worth waiting for...
"Turn my f..king headphones up!" |
| Hatchetman |
Posted - 09/09/2007 : 03:47:45
quote:
Originally posted by vilainde
You gotta admit though, the packaging IS annoying... I took the CD off of it and put it in a jewel case.
I like Jason's artwork quite a bit. The two-headed monster is pretty cool.
Denis
"Can you hear me? I aint got shit to say."
I would say that the 'two headed monster' is a visual representation of 'your mouth into mine'
Ade
As the air conditioner hummed.... |
| 1965 |
Posted - 09/06/2007 : 05:43:56
Did anybody get the poster that came with the online Cooking Vinyl (pre)order? What is it?
I have the key to #902 |
| lonely persuader |
Posted - 09/06/2007 : 01:37:49
seconded.
my record collection looks so beautiful. |
| Joey Joe Jo Jr. Chabadoo |
Posted - 09/05/2007 : 13:00:24
I think Frank Black should stop releasing albums every year and focus on his albums' covers, cause that's what rock'n roll is all about for modern kids!
Yeah!
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| billgoodman |
Posted - 09/05/2007 : 07:19:04
quote:
Originally posted by lonely persuader
quote:
Originally posted by jimmy
All I've seen is the album cover on amazon.com. I knew not to expect anything good, but this is a new low.
If Toby Keith did a benefit album for autism, that could easily be the cover.
I know that the 4AD/v23 artwork was a hard act to follow, but almost all of FB's record sleeves since 1996 have been gay &/or lame &/or ugly.
check out my friend's paintings at http://myspace.com/landspeedsong
Your friend is gay
haha!
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BF: Mag ik Engels spreken? |
| gyaneshwar |
Posted - 09/05/2007 : 06:26:23
quote:
Originally posted by jimmy
All I've seen is the album cover on amazon.com. I knew not to expect anything good, but this is a new low.
If Toby Keith did a benefit album for autism, that could easily be the cover.
I know that the 4AD/v23 artwork was a hard act to follow, but almost all of FB's record sleeves since 1996 have been gay &/or lame &/or ugly.
check out my friend's paintings at http://myspace.com/landspeedsong
I've only seen the cover art online as well, and I don't think it looks all that bad. I don't really agree with you, Jimmy, but you made me laugh, and that's what's important.
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I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don't want to do that. |
| lonely persuader |
Posted - 09/05/2007 : 02:30:20
quote:
Originally posted by jimmy
All I've seen is the album cover on amazon.com. I knew not to expect anything good, but this is a new low.
If Toby Keith did a benefit album for autism, that could easily be the cover.
I know that the 4AD/v23 artwork was a hard act to follow, but almost all of FB's record sleeves since 1996 have been gay &/or lame &/or ugly.
check out my friend's paintings at http://myspace.com/landspeedsong
Your friend is gay |
| Triakel |
Posted - 09/04/2007 : 14:38:08
I believe the technical term is "galambugly." |
| jimmy |
Posted - 09/04/2007 : 12:42:17
All I've seen is the album cover on amazon.com. I knew not to expect anything good, but this is a new low.
If Toby Keith did a benefit album for autism, that could easily be the cover.
I know that the 4AD/v23 artwork was a hard act to follow, but almost all of FB's record sleeves since 1996 have been gay &/or lame &/or ugly.
check out my friend's paintings at http://myspace.com/landspeedsong |
