[klaatumail] Re: From the are you kidding me files
- From: Marc Tobolski <marc_tobolski@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "klaatumail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <klaatumail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 18:56:11 -0700
The Hanson brothers are a talented lot. I think they would do fine. But it
would probably be best if they took the tape off their glasses first. Or did
you mean the singing group from Tulsa? They are extremely talented, too.
Marc
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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
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>> 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).
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> Who is this for? Seriously, what was the sales pitch?
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>> "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?'
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>> 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.
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>> 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).
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>> 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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