My sister does this and it used to drive me crazy, but I've been finding myself doing it lately, with the sheer volume of stuff coming in lately. A tiny Sharpie 'dot' next to the preferred tracks on a CD certainly makes the second playback more fun, and makes it easier to navigate if you wanna make a mixtape three months down the road.
Still, it looks shitty as soon as you do it, if you ever wanna sell the CD you have to change the case, and it kinda blocks you from ever discovering a track you might not have noticed was good the first time or two.
C or D?
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 08:35 (seventeen years ago) link
i don't do that, but recently i've picked up a bunch of garage and early rock comps by someone who did. and in some cases left post-it notes in the sleeve. it doesn't really bother me to buy something used like that but, for some reason, the idea of doing it myself seems totally wrong.
― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 08:51 (seventeen years ago) link
Most amaaaazing writing I've ever seen on a sleeve is "WEIRDO" written on the back cover of Lou Reed's Transformer. It showed up ar Chicago record conventions all the time!!!! But I never bouthgt it. Thought it should keep circulating.
Well, not amazing per se. But kinda cute, I guess.
― Kevin John Bozelka, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 09:28 (seventeen years ago) link
My copy of knock knock by Smog has the word "CHUMP" written in black marker on the inside sleeve (LP) photo of him shaving.
― Lowell N. Behold'n, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 15:24 (seventeen years ago) link
There were some 'bootleg' Sex pistols singles that did this.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 16:53 (seventeen years ago) link
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii69/classicallps/emi2.jpg
like this:
― Mark G, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 16:55 (seventeen years ago) link
i found this old radio station copy of signals calls and marches in boston with a note on "thats when i reach for my revolver" that said DO NOT OVERPLAY THIS INTENSE SONG
― 69, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 17:06 (seventeen years ago) link
i saw a beach boys lp with "cute" and "smart" etc written over their heads. my ex-roommate used to put his initials on all his CDs. I know this because I see them when I go to play one of his albums I took from him
― Billy Pilgrim, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 17:15 (seventeen years ago) link
C/D: Keeping the price sticker on your cases. I've never taken them off, I don't know if I want to go through the arduous task to do so, maybe just for the nice ones and digipaks.
― mehlt, Tuesday, 22 April 2008 14:12 (sixteen years ago) link
The Carolina radio station where I got my copy of Art Ensemble of Chicago's Phase One left nothing to chance, scrawling across the entire front cover in big, black El-Marko: "WEIRD OFF THE WALL JAZZ -- DO NOT PLAY!!!"
― briania, Tuesday, 22 April 2008 14:17 (sixteen years ago) link
I obsessively take these off of everything.
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― sleeve, Tuesday, 22 April 2008 14:21 (sixteen years ago) link
Price stickers come off. The only times I make notes on sleeves is if I'm DJing and want to remember specifically which track to play, in case I can't remember the name or whatever on short notice. Just a little "A3" or "B1" in the corner. And on the PLASTIC sleeve, so I can always replace it and it's not damaging the record in any way.
― ian, Tuesday, 22 April 2008 14:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Keeping the price tag on, I've found, gets me a better trade-in rate, at least at the store where I originally bought the CD.
I never write on the jewel case or the traycard/booklet inside. Occasionally I'll slip a little note in the back with the traycard -- for instance to correct the tracklist of my copy of XTC - Drums and Wires.
― Paul in Santa Cruz, Tuesday, 22 April 2008 14:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Back in my more fanatical days, I wrote chart data (year, month, peak position) next to each song on various-artists LPs. No, I didn't have a girlfriend.
― The Deacon, Tuesday, 22 April 2008 14:55 (sixteen years ago) link
At my old university radio station, the copy of Marianne Faithfull's Broken English had "NO!!" written in chalk on the vinyl itself acrosss the grooves of "Why'd Ya Do It?", indicating that the song was not to be played. My cohost & myself thought this was pretty funny, plus it's a great song, so we played it anyways then pleaded ignorance during a mock on-air apology. Not that anybody really would've cared, but it was our very first time on the air and we didn't wanna screw up immediately.
Black marker on CD cases - I've only done this once, on a dozen-or-so discs to indicate songs to save before selling. I never did get around to selling that dozen-or-so. They're basically worthless now.
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Tuesday, 22 April 2008 15:09 (sixteen years ago) link
I bought a copy of the Swans live album Omnipotence last week that had a bunch of marker notations on it: On the CD itself, "Swans Omnipotence, Young God Records, (college radio station abbreviation)," and on the back insert, "Gothic Folk, VERY GOOD!!"
― stephen, Tuesday, 22 April 2008 15:25 (sixteen years ago) link