Stickers on CDs, classic or dud?

Otherwise, I really hate the sticker-on-card-digipack minefield too, but this is more because of the innate crappy/Wrongness of digipacks than any huge objection to stickers. Jewel-case-removed-sticker-gunk can be deftly removed with a little Mr Sheen or similar

My LP copy of the New York Dolls' Too Much Too Soon has a sticker the original owner stuck on the front. It says 'Hard Rock Is My Candy' in a yummy 70s font. No way would I peel that off!

christhamrin, that's awesome.

Sean that "Hard Rock" sticker is ULTRA MEGA awesome.

However, after buying it you should be able to tear off the sticker without the glue still sticking to the cover.

Haha! The memories!

"if you have the three e.p's you don't need to buy this record"
(lemon jelly - ky)

and recently the scissor sisters which proudly announces
'so hip it hurts' from i-d. (snigger)

This album contains language which some listeners may find objectionable. They can F?!* OFF and buy something from the New Age section

has anybody else noticed that the adhesive on those crappy CD stickers is now even harder to remove?...this is how they're trying to steer us away from downloading?!

http://www.stylusmagazine.com/articles/staff_top_10/top-10-things-i-hate-about-cds.htm

As long as the stickers use a kind of glue that makes them easy to remove, it doesn't bother me. And in those cases when the glue is not of the right kind, it is usually the price tag that is the problem rather than the stickers.

I'm finding that the stickers are easy to remove, but the adhesive stays affixed to the jewel box...it's like the stickers are now made even more cheaply, such that the adhesive bonds better to the plastic box than to the printed label...

Music & Video Exchange to thread... they must use superglue on their stickers. I've not bought stuff in digipaks from there just because of their stupid fucking stickers that tear half the packaging off.

I used to have a theory that independent record stores were less likely to get CDs where the identifying sticker that goes across the top (in the US) would leave that godawful sticky residue, as I seemed to be more likely to get those in a Best Buy or Circuit City. My rationale was that the independent store would have to charge more on average, but you'd be more likely to get a good copy. Like the labels carelessly produced huge batches for the big retailers while making smaller, carefully assembled runs for the indies.

This doesn't really make any sense, and seemed disproven a couple days ago when I went to my local independent and bought the Von Südenfed which was left with much stickiness post-peeling.

goo gone or wd40 do wonders.

I started buying lots of classic hip-hop albums from that CDNow club thing on Amazon where they're all like 8 bucks new and they don't even put stickers on their CDs! I'm sure they're saving money by doing this, which begs the question, OH COME THE FUCK ON ALREADY

Best sticker usage ever:

http://home.att.ne.jp/star/miyuki/ma/marvelous.jpg

someone sold a copy of "kind of blue" with a sticker that said "FREE BONG INSIDE" on the front of the jewel case

at the record store i used to work at

That's a great article, Nick.

Yes, well, MVE never miss an opportunity to hammer it into their customers' heads that YOU ARE SCUM and you get what you pay for since if you were a THRUSTING THATCHERKID with a PROPER JOB you could get it new and unstickered for full price (multiple xpost).

But then, of course, thrusting Thatcherkids don't have time to work out what an album's called if the title and artist are not printed in BIG BABY LETTERS.