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Another pet peeve with buying CDs


Queen of Liars

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I've spoken enough about how much I hate those barcode stickers that get put on new CDs from the US, so here's another pet peeve I was reminded of today:

 

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It's rare, but every once in a while when I order a used CD online I'll get something like this.

I don't know if I even want to commit the effort to trying to remove that cleanly.

 

I takes a bit of the joy out of the purchase. I know it's not the seller's fault. It's the fault of some record store employee who decided to put a sticker straight on the case back in 1992 for some reason. Maybe they had a grudge against the latest KMFDM album for going in a slightly more rock direction. Who knows, but it's still annoying me 23 years later.

 

The worst part is that it's only the remains of a sticker, so I can't even get any interesting information about the history of this particular copy of the CD.

 

Like that one time I got a Pitchshifter album, and upon examining the stickers I found that it was not in its original case, and that the new case it was occupying in fact once belonged to a Coldplay album. Kinda felt tainted after that, being tricked into touching something to do with Coldplay.

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Stickers are obnoxious. I don't collect enough music to have this issue with CD's, but they're equally annoying when placed on DVD covers. Most of the time they can peel off, but sometimes they don't. Personally, I'd rather have the whole sticker than just the residue, so when that's the case I just leave it.

 

Would Goo-Gone (or some equivalent) work? I once used an alcohol pad to clean sticker gunk off a CD jewel case and it did a pretty good job.

 

Alternatively, could you simply replace the case (assuming it really bothers you that much)? It looks like from the image that it's a standard jewel case, which is usually easy enough to swap out with a replacement.

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I used to use Goo-Gone to remove sticker residue from CD cases until I learned that A. the smell never, ever goes away and B. the chemicals could have an adverse effect on the discs themselves, especially if they accidentally come in direct contact with one another.

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