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Subject: Re-posting of Cardboard CD package article
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Date: Sat, 26-Oct-85 00:01:42 EST
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Posted: Sat Oct 26 00:01:42 1985
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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.
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