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Chitter Chatter => General Discussion => Music => Topic started by: zombiehorror on June 02, 2010, 11:30:06 AM

Title: cd longboxes...Remember when cds were packaged like this?
Post by: zombiehorror on June 02, 2010, 11:30:06 AM
Was going thru some more stuff and found these~

(http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh10/zombiehorror01/cd%20longbox/DSCN0890.jpg)
(http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh10/zombiehorror01/cd%20longbox/DSCN0891.jpg)
(http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh10/zombiehorror01/cd%20longbox/DSCN0892.jpg)
(http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh10/zombiehorror01/cd%20longbox/DSCN0893.jpg)
(http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh10/zombiehorror01/cd%20longbox/DSCN0894.jpg)
(http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh10/zombiehorror01/cd%20longbox/DSCN0895.jpg)
(http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh10/zombiehorror01/cd%20longbox/DSCN0896.jpg)
(http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh10/zombiehorror01/cd%20longbox/DSCN0897.jpg)
(http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh10/zombiehorror01/cd%20longbox/DSCN0898.jpg)
(http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh10/zombiehorror01/cd%20longbox/DSCN0899.jpg)
Title: Re: cd longboxes...Remember when cds were packaged like this?
Post by: Gillman-Fan on June 02, 2010, 11:57:37 AM
Boy do I! This (and to a lesser extent the LaserDisc jacket) was the last time that cover art was really able to shine.

Album art was inspirational and I'm one of those old guys who is firmly convinced that vinyl LPs will make a comeback when the current generation of music consumers get fed up with crappy compressed MP3 audio.
Title: Re: cd longboxes...Remember when cds were packaged like this?
Post by: Opera Ghost on June 02, 2010, 12:00:27 PM
Man do I! I was an Assistant Mgr at a Listening Booth Record store--thats right kids, Vinyl Records, back before I moved to So Cal. I remember when CD arrived there in 1984.
Title: Re: cd longboxes...Remember when cds were packaged like this?
Post by: Mike Scott on June 02, 2010, 12:13:12 PM
I think the long box was so people couldn't stick them under their shirts, but then they came out with the magnetic security thingy.
Title: Re: cd longboxes...Remember when cds were packaged like this?
Post by: BaronLatos35 on June 02, 2010, 08:12:41 PM
Yes, I remember those longboxes. Unfortunately I never kept any. Zombiehorror, we have much of the same music.

I also remember listening to records and how you would spend the whole time reading the lyric sheet or studying the album art. I love vinyl.

Title: Re: cd longboxes...Remember when cds were packaged like this?
Post by: BlackLagoon on June 02, 2010, 08:24:16 PM
Wow Zombie, cool collection...great music!

That is my favorite S.T. album (well tied with Join The Army) and I see some Ministry: Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste, which was one of the 1st riffs I learned to play..."Burining Inside". Man great stuff.

I remember buying Anthrax's Attack Of The Killer B's like that and thinking a book or something came in it!

They were cool.......many an allowance dropped at Sam Goody!
Title: Re: cd longboxes...Remember when cds were packaged like this?
Post by: Gillman-Fan on June 02, 2010, 08:40:38 PM
I think the longbox was designed to fit vertically in the preexisting LP displays/bins.
Title: Re: cd longboxes...Remember when cds were packaged like this?
Post by: marsattacks666 on June 02, 2010, 10:27:14 PM
tHoSE rEaLLY bRiNg BaCk mEmORIES......
Title: Re: cd longboxes...Remember when cds were packaged like this?
Post by: Paul L on June 03, 2010, 07:45:36 AM
Those are cool. That's the sad thing about downloading, future (& present?) that is is. I love the artwork on everything from LP's to CD's to DVD's. I enjoy the art on the disc too, remember LP picture discs?
There's no end to technology, but as a collector, I like something to hold in my hand & look at, be it a book, action figure---or disc, keepcase or jewelbox art.
Title: Re: cd longboxes...Remember when cds were packaged like this?
Post by: BaronLatos35 on June 03, 2010, 08:10:46 AM
Quote from: LundyAfterMidnight on June 03, 2010, 07:45:36 AM
Those are cool. That's the sad thing about downloading, future (& present?) that is is. I love the artwork on everything from LP's to CD's to DVD's. I enjoy the art on the disc too, remember LP picture discs?
There's no end to technology, but as a collector, I like something to hold in my hand & look at, be it a book, action figure---or disc, keepcase or jewelbox art.

That is the truth!
Title: Re: cd longboxes...Remember when cds were packaged like this?
Post by: Scatter on June 03, 2010, 09:05:27 PM
Quote from: LundyAfterMidnight on June 03, 2010, 07:45:36 AM
Those are cool. That's the sad thing about downloading, future (& present?) that is is. I love the artwork on everything from LP's to CD's to DVD's. I enjoy the art on the disc too, remember LP picture discs?
There's no end to technology, but as a collector, I like something to hold in my hand & look at, be it a book, action figure---or disc, keepcase or jewelbox art.

Amen.........
Title: Re: cd longboxes...Remember when cds were packaged like this?
Post by: D.D. Wookie on June 02, 2013, 01:16:10 AM
Oh, yeah.  I went to a Catholic high school and would tape the fronts of the long boxes to the inside of my locker door.  Every once in a while we'd have locker inspections to see if kids were stashing weapons or drugs or something and there'd be pin ups of Kirk Cameron and NKOTB and Chad Allen and stuff in girls' lockers, baseball/football players and the odd playboy centerfold or maybe Motley Crue or Guns n Roses pin up in guys' lockers and then Slayer, Dark Angel, Kreator and Cannibal Corpse long box fronts in mine.  The nuns and priests were NOT pleased.
Title: Re: cd longboxes...Remember when cds were packaged like this?
Post by: Hepcat on June 03, 2013, 09:39:35 PM
Cradle of Filth would have provided some really boss pinup material for you and the nuns.

;)
Title: Re: cd longboxes...Remember when cds were packaged like this?
Post by: Hepcat on June 03, 2013, 09:44:30 PM
Quote from: zombiehorror on June 02, 2010, 11:30:06 AM
Was going thru some more stuff and found these~

(http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh10/zombiehorror01/cd%20longbox/DSCN0892.jpg)

So which image did the Philistines delete?

???

You can probably just lift another one from Amazon you know.

;)

Title: Re: cd longboxes...Remember when cds were packaged like this?
Post by: zombiehorror on June 03, 2013, 09:58:13 PM
Quote from: Hepcat on June 03, 2013, 09:44:30 PM
So which image did the Philistines delete?

???

You can probably just lift another one from Amazon you know.

;)

I have no idea!?  I didn't even know an image was missing!  I'd have to look thru those longboxes again to see which one violated photobuckets sensibilities!
Title: Re: cd longboxes...Remember when cds were packaged like this?
Post by: Dr Spankenstein on June 04, 2013, 05:33:46 PM
I guess I'm showing my younger age here, but I don't remember long boxes like that.  I remember long boxes, but I remember them being more of a cardboard housing that the actual CD sat in, as opposed to a giant digipak.
Title: Re: cd longboxes...Remember when cds were packaged like this?
Post by: Paladin on June 05, 2013, 01:30:56 PM
I remember these boxes all to well. Some of the labels (and CD's) tried to give some liner notes while other boxes contained only the disc. 
Title: Re: cd longboxes...Remember when cds were packaged like this?
Post by: Count_Zirock on June 06, 2013, 10:27:50 AM
I remember when these started hitting Sam Goody's and Tower Records in NJ. I didn't even own a CD player until sometime in the early '90s. :P

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Title: Re: cd longboxes...Remember when cds were packaged like this?
Post by: Gills on July 06, 2013, 06:12:28 AM
I remember those old cd long boxes well,I never kept mine either.