You make a very valid point.
CD's are, by their very nature, far less tactile, visceral objects than the lush
beauty of a vinyl with a beautiful gatefold cover. I have a large collection of
milk crates full of my beloved vinyl from ... well, very long ago ;-) and you'd
have to really prise it off me with a gun against my head. But there are few
CD's I have such a strong emotional attachment to, now that you bring this
up. As much as I might love the actual music on the CD's, there is no longer
that mother-hennish protective love that I have for my record collection.
I also agree with your comments on font choice and ultra-minimal artwork.
Gone are the days of beautiful fold-outs and little messages scratched into
the run-out grooves (well, maybe vinyl is still there, but not quite to the
extent of ALL music/ albums being released to that medium).
I
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On 26 Oct 2007 at 9:45, chthonic wrote:
quoted 9 lines this is one thing that has pissed me off a bit about a lot of CDs in> this is one thing that has pissed me off a bit about a lot of CDs in
> recent years, especially minimal electronica. the CD design is basically
> a flat color with small amounts of helvetica type, perhaps a small vector
> graphic. the center and/or back panels of the insert may even be totally
> blank. artists like this may be trying to impart something specific with
> design like this, or perhaps it's just laziness, or that they don't really
> care about visual presentation. i think those sorts of attitudes have led
> to people feeling they are getting less or even to the point of not caring
> if the CD art is lost because what are they really losing?
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