Albums that don’t come in cd trays piss me the hell off. We all know that cds can live a rough and tumble life, bouncing from car to computer to bedside table to god-knows-where when your friends borrow them. Digipaks annoy the daylights out of me, especially the ones like Tori’s venus and back where there’s only a little cardboard slot for a disc, and not a holder. Making matters worse, i can’t ever transfer tvab into a case because it has an oversized cd booklet (as wide as the entire cd case and slightly too tall) and no backing card. Aimee Mann is apparently much more sympathetic to the consumer than Tori, as her Bachelor No.2 comes with a correctly sized booklet as well as a backing card that only needs a centimeter of blank space trimmed from it to fit into an empty cd case. The card is extraneous in all situations other than that one, so i have to assume that i correctly guessed its purpose. It makes sense, because right now packaging in digipaks is much cheaper than distributing cds via cases, and Aimee was self distributing this album when she first released it. Score another for ingenious Krisis (and his exacto knife!)
by krisis