Popped out from my hotel this morning to buy a few CD’s, managed to find some interesting bits, but listening to them is much harder than it should be.
I mean - how difficult is it? You come home, get a fingernail under the cellophane wrapper and then pop open the jewel case to get your new shiny silver disc out - and away you go… right?
Wrong - not in the US, because here - they put ANOTHER sticker, with a barcode over the top edge of the CD - like in the picture above. This is a different kind of of wrapping to get access to…after 3 minutes trying to lift an edge up with my non-existent mans finger nails, I then resorted to a pen, which promptly broke. I ended up making a tear in the sticker with my nail-clippers and then painstakingly peeling the sticker off.
How BLOODY stupid is that extra sticker - why do you need two layers? Grrr…
I daren’t open the Lizz Wright CD pictured above, in case I lacerate myself and bleed to death in the Hyatt.
3 responses so far ↓
1 scully // Mar 23, 2008 at 23:39
They do suck, but here’s a trick:
Carefully pop the plastic pins out of the hinge so that the tape holding the case shut is all that holds the two pieces of the case together. Then you can use the case to help peel the plastic off. My wife taught this to me.
2 mattr // Mar 24, 2008 at 00:27
Thats a pretty cool trick - she’s smart!
3 Susie Hemingway // Mar 27, 2008 at 11:50
That made me laugh - I can see it clearly - rofl
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