...packaging.
That stupid fucking envelope pack.
It's so damn hard to get the disc out.
Hate.
It.

The music... we'll see.
So far, it's good.

todd hated it

Oddly, I feel the same way about the limited edition WRENS album I have...

See that's why we should all buy vinyl...then burn it to a CD-R for convenient listening.

Since I got Funeral for $4.99, the packaging doesn't bother me.

But Todd, you WILL like this album. If you don't, you're not PopTodd but an alien imposter (maybe from Planet Radcliffe )

Ditto.
I bought a regular copy just so I wouldn't have to deal with the packaging.

i hate how it doesn't fit in the cd rack i used at school.

that aside, i adore it.

Godspeed CDs always piss me off, too.

I like homemade packaging. It's cool.

That said, if you don't like it, burn it (to another disc). Then you never have to open it again.

I like homemade CD art as an idea, but it pisses me off when I go to file it on my shelf. Now I'm forced to have a special pile for pretty, odd-sized CDs that don't play nice.

Yeah, but when they're as good as 5ive's Continuum Research Project's The Theory of Abstract Light, you get over it.

I regret purchasing the special edition of Radiohead's Hail to the Thief every time I add a new CD to my rack. That thing is incredibly hard to deal with.

Good god y'all - aren't you record/cd collectors enough to have a special area set up for packaging that doesn't fit your 35p5 wide x 29p5 deep world of jewelcasing?

Hell, I literally do hate the Arcade Fire, but more power to 'em with alternative approaches to packaging.

Also, in the case of the Wrens limited edition Meadowlands, isn't it all satisfying - even somewhat cool? - to know that the band themselves did all of that on their own and that you have a unique packaging for a piece of plastic?

I completely agree here. The fact that it was made by the band makes it really cool in my opinion. As a rule, I like alternative packaging. Some of it gets a bit overboard though.

I've got a summer home there.

I hear it's nice, especially when whole communities get together on a warm summer night to sit at the edge of the sea and jeer at the sunset.

"Could it be any more orange..."

For the Arcade Fire albums I just put the disc in one of those slim blank cases and placed it next to the real package on my shelf.

Hey, if I gotta keep on being a fucking Spongebob, there's gotta be some Squidwards.

Not that I have my cds all arranged on a shelf right now, but when I did, this is what I ended up doing. From all of the Alien8 and Kranky and Constellation releases I own, not to mention the assorted other alternative packages, it probably numbers up in the 30-40 range.

This is exactly what I do with every CD that comes in a cardboard slip-case.

It fits fine into my cd racks.

Record labels should always sell an album in a plastic jewel case or a digipack. That cardboard sleeve/envelope style is not good.

Digipacks have been pissing me off lately, too. I have quite a few where the pastic parts that hold the CD are broken (some of them were like that when I bought them). When that happens to a jewel case you can just replace it.

we're regressing to the pre-interchangable parts era. what would eli whitney say?