Best/most funny/silliest/OMGWTFLOL/whatever extras that come with CD's

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Around a year ago, when you ordered from Insound they'd throw in a couple indie rock band trading cards. I believe it was a series of around 10-15. Collect them all dude!!!!! On the front you'd have a picture of the band, and a mini-bio on the back. I had Modest Mouse, Black Dice, and I can't remember who else.

It always struck me as really OMGWTFLOL. I mean, who would actually want those? Probably the same people who think Neighborhoodies is a good idea.

― Mickey (modestmickey), Thursday, 27 October 2005 21:56 (twenty years ago)

The Primitives gave out little shampoo sachets with one record, I recall. I actually washed my hair with them but my friend carefully saved them in case they became collectible. What a dork.

― everything, Thursday, 27 October 2005 22:13 (twenty years ago)

I got a genuine "Sex Packet" with a promo edition of Sex Packets by Digital Underground (it was actually a candy ala Nekko wafers. No I didn't eat it, but I couldn't tell you where it is today either). Great disc, though.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 27 October 2005 22:21 (twenty years ago)

insound has been doing the indie rock trading card thing since 2000, which was when i worked there.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Thursday, 27 October 2005 22:23 (twenty years ago)

I never got ahold of one, but some copies of "Electric Honey" by Luscious Jackson actually came with a tube of...electric honey.

― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Thursday, 27 October 2005 22:46 (twenty years ago)

The CD of Negativland's "A Big 10-8 Place" came with a little baggie of tanbark.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 27 October 2005 22:48 (twenty years ago)

http://www.visi.com/fall/discog/pics/aftershave%20big.jpg

― rw, Thursday, 27 October 2005 22:54 (twenty years ago)

i bought a bis cd that came with a hairslide. i gave it to my gf of the time and it broke during that evening

― vacuum cleaner (electricsound), Thursday, 27 October 2005 22:56 (twenty years ago)

Bis' lollies that they sent out with mailorders were really cool but sadly melted all over the zones and stickers in the envelope

― kit brash (kit brash), Thursday, 27 October 2005 23:37 (twenty years ago)

the new cathedral album (garden of earthly delights) apparently has some gunk on the cd that releases an apple scent when it plays.

yuck.

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Friday, 28 October 2005 03:19 (twenty years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/32/56785961_a8231d96e3.jpg

― John Justen (johnjusten), Friday, 28 October 2005 03:30 (twenty years ago)

A couple years ago, there was a group called Baleen that delivered its CDs in Petri dishes. Even better, they came packaged with a roll of Smarties.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Friday, 28 October 2005 04:15 (twenty years ago)

caroliner owns this thread, i believe.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Friday, 28 October 2005 04:21 (twenty years ago)

I remember a Southern Culture on the Skids album promo that came with pork rinds, but I can't remember which album it was...

― js (honestengine), Friday, 28 October 2005 07:46 (twenty years ago)

My copy of Bonnie Prince Billy and Matt Sweeny's "Superwolf" came with an insert with a Paul Bowles quote. Basically Bowles was saying if you wanted to modernize Arab and Islamist countries you needed to ween them off hashish and get them drinking.

― Dan Floss (Dan Floss), Saturday, 29 October 2005 03:23 (twenty years ago)

Sound of Music by Pizzicato Five came with a cool credit card proclaiming me a member of their fan club.

― Viz (Viz), Saturday, 29 October 2005 04:14 (twenty years ago)

my stoner friend claimed that there was a tiny little (actual) marijuana leaf inside the packaging of his sleep cd

― buyabiznatch, Saturday, 29 October 2005 15:27 (twenty years ago)

but how can one believe a stoner with such an outrageous claim?

― buyabiznatch, Saturday, 29 October 2005 15:27 (twenty years ago)

talking stoner : the redvinyl We - From the Spaceways came with a pink Ibuprofen painkiller

― knaaq! (knaaq!), Saturday, 29 October 2005 16:06 (twenty years ago)

eight months pass...

Kristin Hersh's 'Sky Motel' came with a big plastic motel keychain for the 'sky motel'.

― derrick (derrick), Friday, 14 July 2006 07:44 (nineteen years ago)

There was a Punk compilation CD that came with a free safety pin located and visible in the clear bit at the left.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 14 July 2006 07:55 (nineteen years ago)

i have that one

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Friday, 14 July 2006 07:57 (nineteen years ago)

terrible compilation too

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Friday, 14 July 2006 07:57 (nineteen years ago)

The Legendary NOFX inflatable sheep (and two guys holding it)

http://www.nardwuar.com/gallery/albums/nardpics/benkweller01.jpg

― StanM (StanM), Friday, 14 July 2006 08:06 (nineteen years ago)

I got a promotional copy of Pills N Thrills N Bellyaches that came with a large plastic "pill" capsule that broke open (think silly putty container-style) and inside was a band-aid, a condom, aspirin and antacid)

Also, my favorite "extra stuff" ever came with "Sing Along In Hebrew", back when Teenbeat were still a fun label. It came with a long newspaper tabloid booklet about the band/record/stuff, chopsticks, a 3-D poster of the band, 3-D gorilla glasses with a scratch & sniff banana, a 1960s-style nudie matchbook, a mermaid drinking glass companion and some other random stuff too. and glitter, everywhere.

― rentboy (rentboy), Friday, 14 July 2006 11:54 (nineteen years ago)

Penis Landscape anyone?

http://www.angelfire.com/scifi/gigercollector/images/Frankenchristwebms.jpg

Big Black's Headache that came in a vinyl body bag you had to cut open was filled with all kinds of inserts/posters/etc. crap (I won't post the cover again, go find the disgusting record covers thread). Lungs or Bulldozer had a buncha found stuff inside (change, old photos, pieces of wire).

The CD tray insert for Plastikman's Sheet One was a piece of blotter paper (never licked it, but I assume it wasn't psychoactively enhanced).

― Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 14 July 2006 12:47 (nineteen years ago)

One edition of Boris's Absolutego had a gummi worm tucked into the spine part of the CD case, under the tray.

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Friday, 14 July 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

Initial copies of the second Portishead album sold at Best Buy came with a floppy disc of screensavers.

― (Ex-)Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Friday, 14 July 2006 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

didn't think mickey bought CDs

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 14 July 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

my copy of aphex twin's "richard d james" album came with a limited numbered lock of the man's hair in a baggy. i foresee much cloning fun in the year 2047!

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 14 July 2006 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

That's Nardwuar the Human Serviette and Ben Kweller holding that sheep. Why?

― everything (everything), Friday, 14 July 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

I never owned it (nor intended to) but I just loved the little red flashing LED on the spine of Pink Floyd's Pulse CD - both the idea and the object itself. It made an object seem like almost a living thing - the only CD on my sister's shelf that demanded attention to itself.

― M. Agony Von Bontee (M. Agony Von Bontee), Friday, 14 July 2006 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

RJG, try to be more timely next time

― like murderinging (modestmickey), Friday, 14 July 2006 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

still, pwned.

― DAVE's secret to fortu-Oh look! Shiny! (dave225.3), Friday, 14 July 2006 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

V- pwnd

― like murderinging (modestmickey), Friday, 14 July 2006 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

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