I don't know what annoys me most - the broken cd case phenomena, the
plastic
wrapping frustration (opening it), the tearing off the bar code scanner
sticker overlaying the cd, or the dreade dhidden bonus track that
typically
young bands think it's cool to do still, years after the technology is no
longer novel.
I'll definitely second the annoyance of the bar code sticker. There
seems to be a large variation in the quality of these stickers. Some
(very few) come off easily and in one or two pieces. On the other side
of the spectrum, there are those stickers that absolutely refuse to come
off in less than 25 small pieces and insist on leaving behind a sticky
residue. Most are somewhere in between.
For the longest time, I really loved the way that Rounder did it. My
memory is a little fuzzy, but somehow their packaging had the bar code
sticker as part of the cellophane wrapping and not actually stuck to the
case. Alas, they seemed to have stopped this practice sometime in the
last year or so because everything I've bought from them recently has
the sticker stuck to the case. They were the only label that I am
aware of that did packaging like that. Does anybody know why they
stopped?
Of course my favorite CD packaging does not have a bar code sticker at
all... (I know, I know, there are good reasons for it).
Tony Lombardi
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