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

Posted by Billdude (@billdude) on Aug. 12, 2024, 9:23 p.m.

what they often do is take the liner notes out of the jewel case or the moldy old digipak (I guess we all should have predicted that those would age even worse than jewel cases, and why were they called jewel cases anyway?) and ask me how on EARTH I can read all that tiny little print? I don’t really have an answer. It’s worst of all with 90s albums on CD, which were often unreadable–a particular example is when I show young people the liner notes to Superunknown, which feature bright sans-serif font text on distorted computer-graphic backgrounds (I think they’re computer graphics, anyway) and the only thing one kid could read was “MELLOTRON: Matt Cameron.” “Who and WHAT is THAT?”