Ask the guy who just picked up thirty CD Jewel Cases off the floor.

[aceplace57]

The Japanese currently sell mini lp cd’s. They are exact reproductions of the original vinyl Album sleeve. You get a paper sleeve and a regular audio cd inside. They are super expensive. The cd is in a plastic sleeve very much like the old records. Thirty bucks or more a pop. I have a few. Mostly music that wasn’t available on regular audio cd’s with jewel cases.

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@Thudlow_Boink

Hell no.

Who originally decided that CDs should be kept in hinged plastic boxes, the way cassettes are, rather than in cardboard sleeves, the way LPs are?

[ZipperJJ]

When I was helping my friends move, we discovered some 300 empty jewel cases in their basement (they’d long ago moved their CDs to wallets).

We put them in packs of 50 inside plastic grocery bags, and put an ad on craigslist. Don’t remember if they asked for $5 a pack or not.

Anyway, they were gone within 2 days.

[MeanOldLady]

@drastic_quench

Hahahaha!

I know! I laughed too hard at that. And now for The Simpsons.

Birch T. Barlow (Rush Limbaugh lookalike): Mayor Quimby, you are well known for your lenient stance on crime, but suppose for a second that your house was ransacked by thugs, your family was tied up in the basement with socks in their mouths, you try to open the door but there’s too much blood on the knob–

Mayor Quimby: What is your question?

Birch Barlow: My question is about the budget, sir.

[zwede]

@A Monkey With a Gun

Dear guy who just picked up thirty CD jewel Cases off the floor.

I am an 11 year old girl and all my friends have started puberty but OMG mine wont start! You know about jewel cases so my question is this: when replacing the carbuerator in a Dodge Charger with a big block 440, can I use a Holly 850? Also, why are there so many children starving in the world?

A Holley 850 double-pumper is not a bad choice, but all the cool kids are going to fuel injection.

Oh, and starving children are all your fault.

[MacGyverInSeattle]

@A Monkey With a Gun

You know about jewel cases so my question is this: when replacing the carbuerator in a Dodge Charger with a big block 440, can I use a Holly 850? Also, why are there so many children starving in the world?

Holly 850’s were Chevy Carburetors, you would need either a Holly 600 (Stock) or a Holly 780 (Aftermarket replacement).

Most of the world’s population still living in abject poverty, I.E. Children starving, are in corrupt nations.
Almost all of the old “Third world countries” are now enjoying vastly improved standards of living except in the cases of corrupt governments.

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So the answer to question 2 is corruption.

Mac.

[Procrustus]

@aceplace57

My wife just reminded me that the younger dopers probably don’t have a clue what this thread is about. Or why jewel cases can be a problem. . . .

They hell with them. Now they know how I feel when I see a thread about Cheezburgers and have to look it up because I have* no idea *what the youngsters are talking about (even after reading thread) or why someone decided to misspell “cheeseburgers.”

[Peremensoe]

@Larry_Mudd

Engineers who realized that (contrary to all the press about the media’s durability) CDs are even more scratch-prone than vinyl, and that protective inner inserts are impractical at that scale, because they quickly develop abrading creases.

During the product development phase, they did package them like tiny record albums - and they became spectacularly unplayable long before an LP would become to crackly to enjoy.

I have a bunch of Japanese “mini-LP” CD issues (some released as recently as this year), and they’re just fine. I was about to say, I wish all my commercial single-CD albums were in paper sleeves like that.

@aceplace57

The Japanese currently sell mini lp cd’s. They are exact reproductions of the original vinyl Album sleeve. You get a paper sleeve and a regular audio cd inside. They are super expensive. The cd is in a plastic sleeve very much like the old records. Thirty bucks or more a pop.

:eek: I’ve never paid that much.

[suranyi]

@aceplace57

My wife just reminded me that the younger dopers probably don’t have a clue what this thread is about. Or why jewel cases can be a problem. I forgot there’s youngsters out there that literally grew up with IPods. You have no idea the fun you missed out on. Nothing like having 15 or so CD’s in the car, sliding all over the place. Unless you had a car with a single cd player it’s had to relate. Life got easier by 1995 when the cd Changer cartridges came out. You could put 5 cd’s in those things.

I started with records and 8 track. Never liked cassette very much and refused to buy music on cassette. I’d buy records and then record them to cassette for the car. Got excited in 1986 at this strange new optical format called CD. WTF Are they I asked. By 1990 I had a couple hundred of them. Mostly replacing my Albums. Today I have about 500 Audio CD’s. Actually that’s not too many for a lifetime. I’ve heard of IPods with over a thousand albums on them.

Yeah, I also have about 500 CDs, which I have only barely started ripping. I think I have about 40 ripped so far. But mind, I got my very first MP3 player – an iPod Nano – for my birthday this past April. Before then, I still used CDs as my primary listening medium.

[Walmarticus]

Why were your CDs in such a vulnerable position that 30 of them could be knocked over so easily?

Are you seriously going to replace the ones that cracked instead of not giving a crap?

Do you ever actually look at the album art and lyrics booklet?

Why don’t you move to MP3s?

Are you a time traveler and don’t know how to work MP3s?

If you are time traveler then why don’t you go back in time and just not bump the table?