I was always a sucker for heavy carboard LP sleeves made out of fibery stock... Joy Division's STILL lured me in by being a gatefold, grey with almost no writing, and the inner sleeves were also made of heavy grey stock.
Prince's Black album - black with varnish, inner ring label completely black.
...Destroy:
And then I bought a Mothra CD because it was packaged like a cheeseburger. Haven't listened to it since the day I brought it home.
Early days of box sets (Biograph, Crossroads) almost got me - strictly by packaging - I was tempted by the idea of a whole bunch of records coming in a box... Never did buy either of those set though...
― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 21 January 2005 13:32 (twenty-one years ago)
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printed hessian bag
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cover is two pieces of hard board tied together with red string
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multi fold out tissue paper cover and gatefold vinyl insert
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 21 January 2005 13:39 (twenty-one years ago)
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stiff fabric/cardboard insert, soaked in creosote
12" 45rpm EP in a printed hessian bag
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 21 January 2005 13:41 (twenty-one years ago)
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 21 January 2005 13:42 (twenty-one years ago)
never gonna listen....never gonna listen..........
that was when james lavelle was in his coked up, weird packaging to hide the so-so music faze.
― danny boy (danny boy), Friday, 21 January 2005 13:56 (twenty-one years ago)
I like the heavy cardboard fibrous covers too (like the Constellation ones, or At Action Park), but last year's ATP was the Year Of Daft Packaging:
Phillip Roebuck's CD, recorded outside the Queen Vic by Albini the night before - two pieces of corrugated cardboard, sellotaped together and written on with marker pen.
A split CD of A Whisper In The Noise and somebody else, in a wooden case bound with bits of wire and a tiny metal catch. Has a branded front illustration.
A CD by someone who "sounds a bit like AMT". It was at the point being a packaging sucker took over, as that's the primary reason I bought it. Made from pressed cork (like bathroom tiles) that's been spiral bound. The inner bits are held on with stamp hinges.
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 21 January 2005 13:59 (twenty-one years ago)
― briania (briania), Friday, 21 January 2005 15:38 (twenty-one years ago)
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Friday, 21 January 2005 17:43 (twenty-one years ago)
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― King Kobra (King Kobra), Friday, 21 January 2005 20:07 (twenty-one years ago)
On the other hand, I also bought the first Black Sabbath largely because I liked the vague menace implied by the cover. Luckily there was a good record inside.
― Myonga Von BoxedSet (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 21 January 2005 22:04 (twenty-one years ago)
― pdf (Phil Freeman), Friday, 21 January 2005 22:09 (twenty-one years ago)
― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 21 January 2005 22:11 (twenty-one years ago)
That's good to know, thanks. What kind of flower is it though?
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Saturday, 22 January 2005 07:51 (twenty-one years ago)