The most popular "added value" attractions labels have devised are the bonus DVD, which often features music videos, some concert footage and interviews, and an interactive element using the artist's Web site. With CD recognition software, having a legitimately purchased album in your computer's CD-ROM drive allows access to special areas of an artist's site. Blink-182's new, self-titled album is among the latest to employ this incentive, while using an "all access" code provided inside copies of Kid Rock's new album lets fans in on exclusive videos, pre-sale tickets and autographs. Copies of P.O.D.'s Payable on Death include a bonus disc that gives fans the ability to remix one of the tracks on their PlayStation game consoles.
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All the technologically advanced extras ironically hark back to era before CD-burning and the Internet, a time when an album's packaging was an essential part of the music experience. When singles gave rise to LPs in the mid-1960s, artists were able to more fully express their art with printed lyrics and gatefold covers spattered with big photos and/or artwork. Only early pressings contained these features, making it a top priority for fans to rush to record stores as soon as albums were released.
"I think the thing you're going to see is a shift in what the art is," [Steve Berman, senior executive, sales and marketing for Interscope Geffen A&M] predicted. "The album may express some art that's visual, that's got a lot of different components to it. It gives the artists a chance to express their art musically and visually."
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 15 November 2003 18:43 (twenty-one years ago)
I wasn't aware there was a point in history in which they could.
― Xii (Xii), Saturday, 15 November 2003 19:04 (twenty-one years ago)
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 15 November 2003 19:27 (twenty-one years ago)
Actually I was inspired to finally check out a Turbonegro album via "Viva La Bam". Seeing Hank From Hell chant "PHIL IS FAT" while wielding an oversized rubber rat is the best music-related anything I've seen on television in ages.
― nate detritus (natedetritus), Saturday, 15 November 2003 19:51 (twenty-one years ago)
Idiot alert. Cabbage working under the belief that everyone is too young to remember vinyl and therefore too stupid to distinguish before the process of sitting before a computer,pointing and clicking, watching the PC hang when the label websitegets too busy with extra features and absorbing thingsmostly visually through a claustrophic display with the physicalpleasure of ripping an cover from the shrinkwrap and admiring it while the music plays real loud. Plus, the photos and art were larger and cardboard, no matter how allegedly sophisticated, never crashed.
in your computer's CD-ROM drive allows access to special areas of an artist's site.
Now there's something that really puts the lead in your ol' pencil.
Copies of P.O.D.'s Payable on Death include a bonus disc
Doesn't touch the pair of panties that was included with oneof the Alice Cooper albums thirty some years ago. Cost more,though.
― George Smith, Sunday, 16 November 2003 19:02 (twenty-one years ago)
That crossed my mind as well. Who the hell gets honestly excited about such a thing? About the only example I can think of that was any good was that Daft Punk thing for their last album.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 16 November 2003 19:06 (twenty-one years ago)
only early pressings of vinyl albums had printed lyrics or gatefold covers? um, correct me if i'm wrong, but they just completely made that up. i mean, yeah, maybe if you bought certain records two years later, you'd get a cheaper version, but it's not like you had to rush out the first day, or the first week, or even the first month.
― fact checking cuz, Monday, 17 November 2003 05:13 (twenty-one years ago)
― Antmusic78 (Antmusic78), Monday, 17 November 2003 05:18 (twenty-one years ago)
― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 17 November 2003 05:22 (twenty-one years ago)
― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 17 November 2003 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)