My copy of this record arrived today and I've just opened it for a look. The packaging is extremely irritating, I didn't look at it before I bought it.
The white inner sleeve (containing the marbled grey vinyl) is wrapped in a thick cardboard fold-over thing which has two obi-strip type things around it (so you have to take both off to get the record out. This is all wrapped in another outer cardboard wrapper that is also closed by two of the obi-strip things. The whole lot is covered in messy painting and writing which is made too difficult to bother reading by all the paint and DIY shit.
Do you love this kind of stuff? I find it a pain in the hole. I buy these things to listen to them, not look at them or spend all day opening and closing (I'm fussy about putting the records away again after I listen to them). I'm already suspicious that the music is incidental to a work of visual art but I haven't listened yet. It was only €17.50 so that wasn't too bad. Roy Harper's excuse for charging €45+ for his last album was that the cardboard was very lavish.
The other day I got a new cd which came in a cardboard box which could easily have held 4 or 5 cds in little wallets but the box had a tray something like a jewel case tray to hold the cd. The booklet is a little thicker than average but would probably have fitted in a jewel case too. Pointless.
The white inner sleeve (containing the marbled grey vinyl) is wrapped in a thick cardboard fold-over thing which has two obi-strip type things around it (so you have to take both off to get the record out. This is all wrapped in another outer cardboard wrapper that is also closed by two of the obi-strip things. The whole lot is covered in messy painting and writing which is made too difficult to bother reading by all the paint and DIY shit.
Do you love this kind of stuff? I find it a pain in the hole. I buy these things to listen to them, not look at them or spend all day opening and closing (I'm fussy about putting the records away again after I listen to them). I'm already suspicious that the music is incidental to a work of visual art but I haven't listened yet. It was only €17.50 so that wasn't too bad. Roy Harper's excuse for charging €45+ for his last album was that the cardboard was very lavish.
The other day I got a new cd which came in a cardboard box which could easily have held 4 or 5 cds in little wallets but the box had a tray something like a jewel case tray to hold the cd. The booklet is a little thicker than average but would probably have fitted in a jewel case too. Pointless.