brown@nicmad.UUCP (10/26/85)
Earlier this month I posted an article about WB and the cardboard CD package. It seems as if the subject of the cardboard package is getting a little hot and heavy again, so I am reposting the article that I posted, that will make a lot of you very happy. >From postnews Tue Oct 1 00:46:12 1985 >Subject: WB/Elektra dropping all-board CD packaging >Newsgroups: net.consumers,net.audio,net.music >Distribution: usa > >[Here, eat this, you cardboard CD package!!!!] > >Billboard, 5 Oct 85, Vol 97 #40 > > N O B O A R D ? > >Two Labels Seen Abandoning New CD Packaging > >According to this article, Warner Brothers and Elektra Records have apparently >given up attempts to seek early acceptance for all-board CD packaging. Their >packaging experiments with two top acts (Prince & Motley Crue), which generated >a firestorm of protest from retailers and consumers beginning last spring, >have been shelved indefinitely, according to a highly placed source. > >Both Ivy Hill, fabricator of the Prince package, and Shorewood, which manu- >factured the Motley Crue CD container, say that no similar all-board packages >for other acts have been ordered by these labels. In one case, there were even >hints that eventual reorders of the affected title might go the jewel box >route. -- Mr. Video {seismo!uwvax!|!decvax|!ihnp4}!nicmad!brown