Nonesuch's cardboard jewelbox sleeves: C or D?

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It's nice when a label goes out of its way to do some extra-special packaging for an extra-special release, but these days Nonesuch packages every cotton-pickin' thing they put out in a jewelbox inside a cardboard sleeve. In some cases the sleeves serve a useful purpose (a couple of recent Caetano Veloso albums tucked a thick booklet and a jewelbox inside one package), or the designer actually uses them to do something interesting (Wilco's A Ghost Is Born), but mostly its just a cover for the cover, and the inside booklet art is exactly the same as the sleeve art but with no type. It just doesn't make sense to me.

I know various threads have touched on this phenomenon tangentially (being unable to open them when drunk, their swanky design, etc.), but I'd be curious to find out what the consensus is, if there is one.

― Formerly Lee G (Formerly Lee G), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 17:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Lame, generally.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 8 September 2004 17:46 (twenty-one years ago)

kind of annoying, especially because i am always reluctant to throw them out. still, for some reason they do make the product look more enticing!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 17:48 (twenty-one years ago)

There's our answer. I always assumed it a grand scheme to lose money.

― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 8 September 2004 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)

They're dumb, but I still usually feel guilty if I throw them away.

― Talent Explosion (Talent Explosion), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 17:57 (twenty-one years ago)

s1ocki otm, they def. stand out in the store and look kind of swank, though i can't figure out why.* evil marketing at work.

the recent tv personalities re-reissues came with these, and i've kept them.

*possible idea = they make it look seamless, like a book or something, as opposed to the more compromised jewel box mess of interlocking parts.

― amateur!!st, Wednesday, 8 September 2004 17:58 (twenty-one years ago)

they don't fit properly in my cd racks!

― JaXoN (JasonD), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 18:03 (twenty-one years ago)

ok worse still are those cds that come packaged as cds in tight cardboard sleeves which are slipped inside flimsy folded-together paper mini-boxes.

like that blanton/webster band duke ellington thing, or the field mice compilation.

fuck that shit.

― amateur!!st, Wednesday, 8 September 2004 18:05 (twenty-one years ago)

The cardboard sleeves are dumb. I throw them out.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 18:26 (twenty-one years ago)

my cat's breath smells like cat food

― amateur!!st, Wednesday, 8 September 2004 18:30 (twenty-one years ago)

those things are lame because the often dont fit inside security keepers in my record store, so we have to put them into some huge thing for boxsets, or else mummify them with tape and security tags.

― peter smith (plsmith), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 18:32 (twenty-one years ago)

my doctor says I could stop having those nosebleeds if I could just keep my finger out of there

― autovac (autovac), Thursday, 9 September 2004 07:00 (twenty-one years ago)

At least they remove the barcode and excessive type from the CD artwork, whereas a label like Soul Jazz does the same slipcase over the CD thing, and puts two barcodes on the cardboard and another on the actual artwork.

― Vic Funk, Thursday, 9 September 2004 13:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Dud for me since I started taking the inlays and CDs out of the Jewel Case and putting them into clear plastic envelopes for space reasons (plus the fact they look like a mini-vinyl collection)

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Thursday, 9 September 2004 13:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Dud. Use it selectively!

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 9 September 2004 14:48 (twenty-one years ago)

what do you mean?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 9 September 2004 15:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Taking sides: Nonesuch's cardboard sleeves vs. Ryko's green plastic cases.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 9 September 2004 17:36 (twenty-one years ago)

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