Messrs. Von Oswald and Ernestus spoke about the cases many years ago - can't remember where but they said something like that it wasn't deliberate, emphasising that they had no intention of causing people who buy their music to lose what they'd bought.
I got the impression that the metal cases seemed to be a good idea at the time to them and the unfortunate consequences were unforeseen. Nothing deliberate and not a cruelly indirect way to press home [pun unintended] their invocation to 'buy vinyl'. [I always find the phrase quite funny and I think it's partly meant to be!] I went through 3 BC compilations, 2 Maurizio ones and 2 CR 'various artists' ones before I learned my lesson: keep the cases in the display cabinet, keep the CDs in a CD book or something. -----Original Message----- From: Jernej Marusic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2008 11:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: 313 Org Subject: Re: (313) Porter Ricks "Biokinetics CD" I've modified my metal boxes (after my M CD cracked in half) by sticking the plastic from a normal jewlcase inside. After my M CD cracked, I wrote an email to Hardwax, that they should do something about the desing, and they sent me a new copy for free :) Jernej www.octex.si theREALmxyzptlk wrote: > That could well be the case, but I burned cdrs from my copies right > after I got them and played those, especially when traveling. When I > heard people had cracked discs, I checked my own and three of them were > cracked. None of them were even opened more than a few times. > Chain Reaction figured it out and moved to the uglier 'soft covers' > eventually. And I can't find a few of the CDs I have sitting in stacks > of slimlines. > The notion of a CD banging around on bare metal as packaging always > seemed just this side of the legendary Durutti Column LP that used > sandpaper for the jacket. Interesting aesthetically, but a tad shy on > the function meter (unless you hate Vini Reilly) > > jeff > > > >> Not that it's either here nor there, but I don't think that at normal >> temps, the difference between the expansion rate of stamp metal and >> whatever plastic they make CDs from differs that much. >> >> I think it's as much the fact that a plastic CD case's spindle-holder >> is made of plastic that bows in when you push on the CD, then pops >> back out so that a little lip on each tine of the spindle-thingie >> keeps the CD in place. There is little or no outward force on the >> hole in the CD. >
