[klaatumail] Re: From the are you kidding me files
- From: Jaimie Vernon <bullseyecanada@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <klaatumail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 21:19:26 -0400
Put it on Ebay and move on with your life :-)
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> Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 17:00:12 -0700
> From: tnshell40@xxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [klaatumail] From the are you kidding me files
> To: klaatumail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> I don't know if anyone here has seen this wonderful new way of packaging a
> double CD, but I just saw it on of all things, the new Recording of Les
> Miserables (the 25th anniversary concert from England).
>
> It is a double disc, but looks like it comes in a regular slim line case that
> you would flip the tray to get to disc 2 (ala Sun Set - see I can bring
> Klaatu Kontent in on some esoteric level!) but not this, no. It literally
> has the two CD's SITTING ON TOP OF EACH OTHER. Literally the two discs rest
> on the spindle.
>
> To add insult to injury, it is the kind of plastic case (not sure what it is
> called, or if it is technially a jewel case) that looks like a short version
> you see on some cheap DVD's or Some music DVD's where you also have to press
> a button to release the lid.
>
> Who is this for? Seriously, what was the sales pitch?
>
> "Hey guys, while we are on the fence with this whole digital disc thing, what
> else can we do to piss the customer off, especially audio nuts that try to
> keep their product as pristine is possible and not give them a chance in hell
> all the while nailing them to a wall because once it is open we can always
> said 'you may have burned it, tough luck, it's your?'
>
> Okay, a little over dramatic, but I do already have RED Distributions phone
> number in NYC and am going to call tommorow. I would have returned it, but
> it was kind of a gift, especially after it was one of those PBS 'thank you
> gifts' after it was on last month.
>
> As far as I am concerned, I have two other recordings and am not happy a
> Jonas Brother is in this cast and after seeing the way this packaged, free
> burns for all that ask (just cover postage and envelope, discs are on me, I
> will write out the songs and yuo make your own lable).
>
> Thanks for letting me vent, but is this the norm now? I mean really? I get
> a surface scuff and I freak and I know that I am going to flip on this set.
> (and for the record, I was really not expecting to adopt this disc as a gift,
> seriously, a Jonas Brother? What next? Hanson doing Jersey Boys?).
>
> Alex
>
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