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Re: Re: When I show CDs to people who didn't grow up with them

Posted by Billdude (@billdude) on Aug. 14, 2024, 11:19 a.m.

Damn kids damn phones damn kids kids kids!!!!!

When people would hand out those tiny bibles that you put in your pocket I always thought people just carried them with them for good luck against vampires or something. No way could anybody read those.

Totally agreed about gatefolds and CD liners ruining LP art!
I sort of liked it when CDs were packaged as “mini-LPs” though, like my copy of R. E. M.’s Document.

Seeing that gatefold reminded me of this slightly homoerotic kids’ book I had a nice big copy of when I was seven:

https://50wattsbooks.com/products/the-rainbow-goblins?srsltid=AfmBOorRWdgh76ReuttPHWm6gA1NoIiiGIw2uFm5AC1cnjNBy_Tplj6A