Ah the joys of days gone by! Alas CDs are a little too small to do this any more but back in the Ice Age when they had vinyl albums, ocassionally neat things were included. Here are some examples:
A very cool postcard of the two guys (one partially on fire) shaking hands in Wish You Were Here-Pink Floyd.
An indian ink cardboard print of a polar bear in The Foriegner Suite done by Cat Stevens himself-which graced my apartment for 5 years.
And we all know what was in Cheech and Chong's Big Bambu, don't we?
Have you ever found any other prizes in the Craker Jack box? (...didn't mean to sound like a Meatloaf song )
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Well, some do fold out into posters right? (Any poster you've found that you like?) They could always insert something the size of a business card...I guess
Talk about designs on CDs (themselves) if you like..some of them are wicked...
Discovery by Daft Punk came with a credit card-style fan club membership. You had to enter the number from it to gain access to hidden parts of the official site. That album is also available as an 'Animated House Musical' by Leiji Matsumoto, which is great.
Also Garbage's Beautiful Garbage came in a very pretty folding sleeve, which was in the shape of a rose. Probably the prettiest CD cover I've ever seen. Shame about the awful album inside it, really.
Q. Why do Communists drink herbal tea?
A. Because proper tea is theft.
i received half a dozen punk albums in the mail for 10 bucks or something like that back in 1990. one was Nirvana's Bleach. had poster and other stuff I can't remember. didn't like it much, lost track of it. could have sold that puppy at the height of Nirvanamania.
Well, a good proportion of the vinyl I own has those little messages etched into the part between the label in the centre and the end of the groove. Some of those are pretty cool.
My Radiohead - Amnesiac special edition comes in the style of a hardback library book, complete with a library card from "Nosuch Library, Catachresis College" and stamped with various dates (some from the future, some from the past at the time of its release... we're now only 4 months away from the latest date). The card has things like "Spine Damaged" handwritten on it and its reference number is "F HEIT451".
The book itself contains various bits of artwork from singles and the regular album booklet of that era.
Erm... my Explosions In The Sky - The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place and Biffy Clyro - Infinity Land booklets both smell really nice.
And when I bought the Hundred Reasons - The Great Test single, it came free with a signed poster.
"Do what thou wilt" on the runoff area of side 2 of Led Zep II.
4 different covers for In Through The Out Door.
"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." - PJ O'Rourke
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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i distinctly remember a Dylan poster that came in one album but i can't remember which one...i might have been Before the Flood (Dylan's last live album with The Band) and also...sheesh...i'm CERTAIN i got a Chicago Transit Authority poster in my copy of Chicago at Carnegie Hall.
you're more advanced than a cockroach,
have you ever tried explaining yourself
to one of them?
~ alan bates, the mothman prophecies
i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio
a straight edge for legends at
the fold - searching for our
lost cities of gold. burnt tar,
gravel pits. sixteen gears switch.
Haphazard Lucy strolls by.
~ dennis r wood ~
The Somberlain wrote: Biffy Clyro - Infinity Land booklets both smell really nice.
I'm going to go check that now!
But if you're all about the destination, then take a fucking flight.
We're going nowhere slowly, but we're seeing all the sights.
And we're definitely going to hell, but we'll have all the best stories to tell.
sgtnull wrote:i had the alternate cover to Pink Floyd's Relics at one time. the one drawn by Nick Mason.
Got that one too.
How about when you could buy "Dark Side of the Moon" on vinyl?
Came with a couple of posters, stickers, and a few postcards inside.
I've noticed that a lot of CDs don't even carry the lyrics sheet anymore, like the albums did on the inside jackets.
Have you hugged your arghule today?
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"For millions of years
mankind lived just like the animals.
Then something happened
that unleashed the power of our imagination -
we learned to talk."
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If PRO and CON are opposites,
then the opposite of PROgress must be...
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My mum gave me a bunch of her old records to try and sell on eBay (just going through them, looking up catalogue numbers and stuff, trying to work out which ones are worth putting up is taking AGES).
But amongst all the rubbish (I know it's all opinion, but really, "Geoff Love Plays Top TV Tunes"?) I hit upon the Beatles' self-titled (or the White album, whatever you want to call it).
I don't even like the Beatles all that much, but the gatefold sleeve with the embossed title, plus the big arty poster, and the photos inside... I thought it was wonderful packaging. I couldn't sell that, so it's now in my record box.
Besides from being a mind blowing piece of music to a childs ears my fathers copy of Emerson Lake and Palmers Brain Salad Surgery was pretty mindblowing to my little eyes also,that album cover is awesome.There was another,I think by Kansas that had a man made out of thousand of tiny little sea shells and other marine animals.My fathers album collection exposed me to a lot of abstract images and ideas as a young child,and I think I am better for it.
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You're kidding.... 
take that, vile fiend!
