Clint Black had a release called Nothin but the tail lights that featured LED tail lights that flashed.
There was an additional gimmick, on the record. It had 3 sides instead of the usual 2.
You may, but that wouldn’t be entirely accurate. The first pressing had a fictional "limited edition number ".
The artistic statement being that anything can be a “limited edition”, because everything has a finite end at some point, and is thus, limited.
Danzig had an album where if you kept unfolding the insert, it would form an upside down cross.
The Donnas had a velvet covered sleeve over their *Gold Medal * album. They should have spent more time on the music.
The packaging for Tool’s CD 10,000 Days has a thick cardboard outer sleeve with a flap that has stereoscopic lenses built into it; you flip the flap up, peer through the lenses, and look at artwork packaged inside to get a 3-D feel from the images. The Wiki article says that the guitarist (who’s also their art director) got a Grammy for the packaging.
The Who Live at Leeds was in a record-sized document folder (like one used for papers). The record was on one side, and various reproductions of documents and photos were on the left (for example, the group’s contract at Woodstock, tour schedules, a poster, etc.)
The Rolling Stones Her Satanic Majesty’s Request originally had one of those “moving image” 3-D plastic pictures that change as you look at it from different angles. You could see the members of the group moving and could spot the Beatles hidden in the bushes if you looked at the correct angle. Later versions substituted a picture, and you can’t find all the Beatles.
Re “The White Album”: It was never actually called “The White Album.” The official name was and still is The Beatles. We used to call it “The Beatles Double Album” before “White Album” caught on.
I had a Rocky Horror Picture Show Picture Disc LP.
That was the first time I saw a photograph encompassing the record itself. Damned impressive to an 19 year old (or so) from Ohio.
Picture disks were a big fad in the early 70s. There’s a long list of groups whose record companies released them.
The Kiss album Love Gun came packaged with a cheap plastic squirt gun.
I owned Dirty by Sonic Youth for over a year before I noticed that there was a picture underneath the orange CD tray. It was hard to make out, so I pried out the tray. I was surprised to find a weird photo of some naked people engaging in, uuuh, well, some kind of stuffed animal orgy. Turns out it was a photo by supermasochist Bob Flanagan, and was removed in some later pressings. Oddly NSFW:
If you have an old copy kicking around, pry out the CD tray to see if you have the “Dirty” pic. After this discovery I checked out every copy I came across for a while, and quite a few that had opaque grey trays still had the pic underneath. It was pretty fun to show to owners who had no idea.
Yes, fantastic it is. As are all their albums (excluding Von here, which is only good). My copy of ( ) doesn’t look like that though, guess I have a newer version. :mad:
Oh, and it’s Sigur Rós, not Sigur Rose. 
Elvis’ “Moody Blue” - the album itself (not the sleeve) was a beautiful translucent blue vinyl.
Then we have **Bobby Sherman’s ** record (I cannot recall the title of the song) which was printed on the back of a Raisin Bran box. You cut where indicated on the cardboard, put it on your turntable and voila!
Nah, it was a paper gun that had an insert that would pop out and make a noise when you whipped it down quickly.
Also, Kiss Alive II came with rub-on tattoos.
Ewww, why did I click?
E Pluribus Funk. My parents had it.
I have a limited-edition version of ZZ Top’s Recycler CD with real diamond-plate on the front and back of the case.
The covers album Schoolhouse Rock Rocks came in a jewel case made of opaque yellow plastic instead of the usual clear. Other opaque jewel cases include Pet Shop Boys’ Very and the Wax Trax box set Black Box.
Beck’s latest album The Information has a graph-paper cover and comes with stickers to customize it.
Becks The Information comes in a blank sleeve with stickers included so you could make your own cover art.
Band on the Run came with a fold out Polaroid snapshot poster.
John & Yoko’s Wedding Album:
In addition to that was Muscle of Love in '74 which came in a sweat stained brown “paper” wrapper.
I don’t know that it counts as a “gimmick”, but the CDs in Cash Unearthed are packaged in an actual album – the kind that my grandma kept her 78’s in, with board covers and heavy brown paper sleeves.
Does Smell the Glove count?
Alice in Chains’ Jar of Flies CD had a bunch of plastic flies inside the clear edge. I remember almost buying it for this reason, even though I didn’t care for it.
Tom Waits’ recent Real Gone has a flip-picture show of Tom beatboxing contained in the CD insert.
Negativland has tons of crazy stuff included with their CD’s. My favourite was A Big 10-8 Place, which came with a poster, a recipe, a bumper sticker, and a small ziploc bag full of sawdust with a tag proclaiming it personally inspected by Mark Hosler (which I later verified it actually was!).
My husband purchased the boxset Weird Tales of the Ramones for me last year - it came with a 3-D comic book and glasses.