CD’s Purchased on Record Store Day
At the urging of several emails and conversations with Zippy, the first CD I picked up when I walked into the store was the new Sons and Daughters album, This Gift. I’m listening to it as I write this, and it’s a GREAT album. (Catch them next Tuesday night at Neumos.)
Anyway, I browsed around during the Vinnie Blackshadow show, and also picked up a used, but in excellent condition, copy of The Style Council’s Café Blue, on of my favorite albums from 1984.
The store was also giving away many promotional CD’s inlcuding Sup Pop’s 20th Anniversary collection HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME and Matador’s Spring 2008 Intended Play. Both include many great artists. Go to the store and grab some copies for youself.
You know what’s really great about used CDs? Those extremely annoying anti-piracy seals are already peeled off! You buy the CD, and just open it up. Don’t even have to work a thumbnail into a crease to tear off the cellophane wrapper.
You want to know why those freaking seals are so difficult to pull off in one piece without leaving any sticky residue behind?
Sin theta is equal to the square root of B tau over 2 eta gamma
But then you probably already knew that… and if it hadn’t been 23 years since I last wrote out a mathematical equation like such as that one, I’d write it out in math symbols for you now.
And why is it that CD’s that don’t come in jewel cases are exempt from the annoying seals? Are they immune to piracy? No… It’s simple because putting a super sticky piece of plastic on a cardboard case would ruin the package if you tore it off.
So all you musicians out there, please make my life better by packaging all your albums in cardboard cases.
