Jewel Case vs Digipack

[DanLights]

Digibooks look cool, but many of them are a pain in the ass, because my CD-Shelf isn't high enough to fit them in.

Yeah, so far I only have two albums in this "digibook" format, and I don't have a CD shelf here in Spain, 70% of my old collection is still back in Venezuela and I'm bringing them little by little, so I have the CDs I have here on a book shelf next to my books, but when I need to buy an actual shelf it's gonna suck. Opeth's Heritage is another one that comes with the booklet glued to the digibook, it's pretty stupid.

 

[LBTM]

Digipak.

 

[Mago]

When digipacks came out there was barely an internet, let alone MP3's or music for download. I still have the NIN "broken" digipack I bought in 1992. CD's ARE digital. It was a clever name at the time.

that makes sense

 

[Sloan]

I prefer digipak solely for the fact that they have the artwork and album info attached as one piece. Losing half of a jewel case fucking sucks.

 

[ThraxMan]

I loathe digipaks. I prefer standard plastic jewel cases. If your case breaks you can easily replace it. You cannot replace a crappy digipak. Unfortunately record labels are cramming these digipaks down our throats. They are touted as premium packaging but I disagree, I feel it's far inferior. Most of the time the Japanese issues are jewel cases but those imports are costly to get. If this keeps up I may end up going all digital in protest of digipaks.

 

[Pharaoh's Curse]

Does anyone even make CD's anymore with everything downloadable today?

 

[Genius Gone Insane]

I won't buy music unless it comes with a CD.