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offline surrounded from it won't be hard anymore to li on 2002-07-23 21:00 [#00321572]
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Okay, so most of you will probably think this is a stupid
question, but it bothers me anyway...

Whenever I buy a CD i almost immediately remove the
price-stickers from the box, because they annoy me very
much.

BUT, i like to keep the "original" stickers... the one that
(i presume) the record-company puts there. Like for instance
on Druqks there is a sticker that says there are "30 new
tracks" on that album... i'm keeping that one.

So today I bought both "go plastic" and "my red hot car ep"
by squarepusher. And on both those cd's there is an almost
identical sticker on the back.

I have Go Plastic here next to me... it says:

80500852
squarepusher
go plastic
1
(barcode)

Now it's been bugging me if this is an "original" sticker,
or if the recordstore put it there? ;-) You can laugh if you
want, but if it turns about to have been put there by Warp i
wanna keep it... otherwise i'm taking it off :-p


 

offline Netlon Sentinel from eDe (Netherlands, The) on 2002-07-23 21:03 [#00321575]
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lol! i came across the very same squarepusher sticker the
other day! well, i had removed it, but i was thinking the
same thing you are, doubting its origine and all... :)


 

offline Zeus from San Francisco (United States) on 2002-07-23 21:03 [#00321576]
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youll be shocked to know that i take out the cd and the
front cover...and throw the rest in the trash


 

offline hannibal from United Kingdom on 2002-07-23 21:08 [#00321578]
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my go plastic was bought from a local record emporium,and
that had no stickers at all. i think you can peel without
regret my friend.


 

offline surrounded from it won't be hard anymore to li on 2002-07-23 21:08 [#00321579]
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hm, if it was exactly the same sticker... it couldn't have
been a sticker from my local recordstore :-D

That settles it, it's staying on there ;-)

And yes Zeus, that does shock me! How do you keep your cd's
scratch-free without the jewelcase? And what about the
back-cover? it often contains the tracklisting! You throw
the tracklisting in the trash?

Crazy :-p

I treasure my cd's in their original casings!


 

offline hannibal from United Kingdom on 2002-07-23 21:10 [#00321580]
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peel peel peel


 

offline surrounded from it won't be hard anymore to li on 2002-07-23 21:11 [#00321581]
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but netlon sentinel found the same sticker!?

Probably the recordstore where you bought it (hannibal),
dropped your copy of go plastic or whatever, and replaced
the broken cover with a new (and thus sticker-free) one.


 

offline Netlon Sentinel from eDe (Netherlands, The) on 2002-07-23 21:16 [#00321583]
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i bought it in leiden at plato or velvet, maybe it's the
same store?


 

offline Zeus from San Francisco (United States) on 2002-07-23 21:20 [#00321585]
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i put the front cover and the cd in a large cd case

i dont have enough room to keep all the cases for all the
cds i have

and as far as track listings...

i just pop that cd into my iMAC, and it goes on the net and
automatically gets the track names off the net



 

offline xceque on 2002-07-23 21:21 [#00321586]
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surrounded, this topic made me laugh. I do exactly the same
thing. so you may be sad, but at least you're not alone :)

check out the design of other stickers on cds in the store
you got 'em from. if they look similar they'll be the store
stickers. probably the store stuck the wrong ones on one of
the cds you got.
if in doubt, keep 'em there. Or peel them off, attach them
to an easy-peel backing paper and put them inside the sleeve
inlay :)



 

offline Clic on 2002-07-23 21:30 [#00321588]
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Wow.


 

offline surrounded from it won't be hard anymore to li on 2002-07-24 05:34 [#00322082]
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what?! pumpkinland means holland?

:-p
I hadn't realized you were dutch. Yeah I also bought the CD
from Plato in Leiden. This changes everything! I now think
it's probably a Plato-sticker. However I also bought Music
is rotted one note and Maximum Priest EP yesterday, and they
didn't have that sticker.

I guess I'll have to do what xceque said and look at other
CD's @ Plato. Or make a fool of myself and ask someone
behind the counter about that sticker ;-)
But I have the same "if in doubt, keep 'em there"-policy. I
mean I can always peel it off later, but I'll never be able
to put it back just as neat as it is now.


 

offline surrounded from it won't be hard anymore to li on 2002-07-24 05:38 [#00322086]
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Not having enough room is a pretty good argument...
cd-collections DO take an awful lot of space actually. But I
would never be able to make myself throw away the back
cover. I consider the entire cd-package a work of art. It
would make me so sad if I missed a part of it.


 

offline Zephyr Twin from ΔΔΔ on 2002-07-24 05:43 [#00322089]
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Zeus, I used to put the booklets in my CD "leather book
container thing" but they made the amount of space in each
sleave a lot tighter, and subsequently my cd's would get
scratched just by puting them in and taking them out. So I
stopped doing that, and luckily before I got into Aphex Twin
so all those CDs are still pristine! :)


 

offline brendan ether from the beach (obx, NC) (United States) on 2002-07-24 05:46 [#00322091]
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i agree! it is art.


 

offline Zephyr Twin from ΔΔΔ on 2002-07-24 06:22 [#00322122]
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yeah, i also agree.


 

offline Netlon Sentinel from eDe (Netherlands, The) on 2002-07-24 12:08 [#00322678]
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ha no pumpkinland means i dig good music ;)

yeah i thought you might have bought it in leiden, as you're
from alphen :)

peel it off, man. i did


 

offline surrounded from it won't be hard anymore to li on 2002-07-24 12:28 [#00322711]
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eh?
So it is more like smashingpumpkinland? ;-)

Or am I missing a point here?

Anyways, yeah I have to go to Leiden for good music. Sadly
the best recordstore in Alphen is probably Free Record
Shop... nuff said... (sigh).

Also I E-mailed Plato about the sticker. So hopefully when
they reply we'll know where the sticker came from.

;-)

I'm still hesitating to peel it off... it reminds me of the
sticker on "2 remixes by AFX", and that sticker was pretty
much the entire artwork :-/ So I treasure that one.

It's nice to see other people also consider the CD-covers
more than just a way to wrap the cd's and think of them as
art! I'm still getting used to the minimalistic aproach most
IDM-artist use for their artwork... I used to listen to
alternative rock, and those albums always come with nice fat
booklets full of lyrics and stuff... it was somewhat of a
shock to find Aphex Twin and Squarepusher don't use more
than a single piece of paper...not a booklet. But I still
like them! The Go Plastic cover looks absolutely great in my
opinion :-)


 

offline Netlon Sentinel from eDe (Netherlands, The) on 2002-07-24 12:36 [#00322718]
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you assume correctly, george :)

the art works are the only reason i buy cds, these days,
instead of just burning them to cdr.

emailing plato is close to exaggerating the whole thing, man
;)


 

offline Ceri JC from Jefferson City (United States) on 2002-07-24 12:39 [#00322726]
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I'm exactly the same!

When I got my drukqs promo the sticker was on the
shrinkwrap- not the jewel case so I carefully peeled it off
and put it on the case in the same corner it had been when
it was on the wrapping. :)


 

offline Netlon Sentinel from eDe (Netherlands, The) on 2002-07-24 12:40 [#00322728]
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haha, yreah me too. also beacause otherwise the cd would be
hard to identify, anyway


 

offline surrounded from it won't be hard anymore to li on 2002-07-24 12:45 [#00322736]
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george is happy he was right ;-)

Yeah, awfully close to exaggerating, LOL
I know, but i can't help myself. I'd never forgive myself if
I peeled it off and later found it wasn't a plato-sticker.
But i realize it is rather silly... I opened up the tray
earlier today, to take out the backcover and see what was
under the sticker... just another barcode! :-p


 

offline surrounded from it won't be hard anymore to li on 2002-07-24 12:49 [#00322742]
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Somehow it just doesn't feel "real" to me if I just have a
downloaded album burned to CD-R... I can only truly enjoy it
if i have the actual CD with the artwork!



 

offline Netlon Sentinel from eDe (Netherlands, The) on 2002-07-24 12:50 [#00322745]
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yeah it's prolly just a dutch barcode replacing the english
barcode.

i think plato orders at warp, just like we do, at
warprecords.com


 

offline jonesy from Lisboa (Portugal) on 2002-07-24 12:53 [#00322751]
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You've been sucked into the artificial desire for authentic
commodities. I bet the record companies have a good wank
when they hear stuff like that.


 

offline surrounded from it won't be hard anymore to li on 2002-07-24 12:53 [#00322753]
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when i bought NIN's downward spiral there was also a
shrinkwrap around that, with a sticker about the explicit
content (not the famous black and white one). It wouldn't
peel off, so I carefully cut it out with a pair of
scissors... To this day I've still kept it... neatly tucked
away inside the lyrics-booklet :-D


 

offline surrounded from it won't be hard anymore to li on 2002-07-24 12:55 [#00322755]
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what's so artificial about that desire??


 

offline Ceri JC from Jefferson City (United States) on 2002-07-24 12:55 [#00322756]
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I enjoy GBA games that are copied- but not to the same
extent as the originals. I don't know, it's probably that I
don't fell the need to play them as much...


 

offline flea from depths of your mind (New Zealand) on 2002-07-24 12:57 [#00322760]
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now this about a 4 on the boringmeter


 

offline surrounded from it won't be hard anymore to li on 2002-07-24 12:58 [#00322761]
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doesn't play it again sam (PIAS) take care of distribution
for Warp in these parts of europe? I always assumed the Warp
CD's were delivered to stores thru them...


 

offline Netlon Sentinel from eDe (Netherlands, The) on 2002-07-24 13:02 [#00322768]
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maybe. my go plastic doesn't mention pias, though. im just
guessing, mind.


 

offline Zephyr Twin from ΔΔΔ on 2002-07-24 16:56 [#00322892]
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how exactly do you copy a GBA advance game?.... its not
exactly in cd format....


 

offline Zephyr Twin from ΔΔΔ on 2002-07-24 16:57 [#00322893]
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GB advance or GBA.... whatever =p


 

offline Ceri JC from Jefferson City (United States) on 2002-07-24 17:03 [#00322897]
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You can get blank rewritable carts that link to PCs that you
can DL .gba files to.


 

offline Zephyr Twin from ΔΔΔ on 2002-07-24 17:14 [#00322904]
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oh, thats pretty cool.. so u can buy like the outer casing
to the cartidge and upload the game into it?


 

offline Ceri JC from Jefferson City (United States) on 2002-07-24 17:20 [#00322908]
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Yeah here's an URL...

http://www.lik-sang.com/catalog/product_info.php?category=6
&products_id=1338&


 

offline Zephyr Twin from ΔΔΔ on 2002-07-24 18:24 [#00322934]
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cool, thanks for the info. :)


 

offline surrounded from it won't be hard anymore to li on 2002-07-25 12:09 [#00323922]
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Okay, so Plato mailed me back :-)
They wrote:

>Hoi Erik,
>
>Deze sticker is niet van ons en zat er dus al op!
>
>Met vriendelijke groet,
>
>Wim,

Which means:

Hi Erik,

This sticker is not from us, so it was already on there when
we got it!

Kind regards,
Wim

Wow...

;-)

Glad i didn't peel it off yet! :-p
My sticker is staying on there FOREVER!


 

offline Netlon Sentinel from eDe (Netherlands, The) on 2002-07-25 13:13 [#00323989]
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nou gefeliciteerd hoor :)

*probeert zich te herinneren waar hij de squarepusher
sticker heeft gelaten*


 

offline surrounded from it won't be hard anymore to li on 2002-07-25 13:20 [#00323993]
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hahaha :-p

Dank je!

Na deze hele tread en dat mailtje enzo vind ik het nu
eigenlijk een NOG leukere sticker ;-) Nu zit er een heel
verhaal aan vast.


 

offline jand from Braintree (United Kingdom) on 2002-07-25 13:26 [#00323998]
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I keep a jar of the sweat I secrete on the way to the record
shop to buy each new Aphex release....I then file the discs
in descending order; the sweatiest on top & so on....



 

offline surrounded from it won't be hard anymore to li on 2002-07-25 13:33 [#00324003]
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that's disgusting jand! :-P


 

offline jand from Braintree (United Kingdom) on 2002-07-25 13:39 [#00324010]
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it works for me...:)...



 


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