RECORD STORE TALES #1166: A Storage Solution for Certain Promo CD Singles
I managed a CD store for 10 years. Storage was always a commodity to me, then and now. As a young guy living in a small bedroom in his parents’ house, I was running out of CD space fast. Every slot counted. An opportunity to save some slots, by replacing a 2 CD “fat” case with a slim one, was always valuable.
There are occasional promo CD singles that were cheap on packaging because, well, it was a free handout CD given to radio stations or stores to play. Front covers were optional. Sometimes, singles such as these were valuable to me, for the inclusion of edit versions or other mixes that may not have been on commercially available singles or albums.
There was one storage solution I came up with to save space in my collection, and logically file these singles in an interesting way. Have a look at the short video below.
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Never done that with cd’s. Have only replaced damaged covers.
How about vinyl? I usually replace the paper inner sleeves.
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I have a bunch of spare sleeves, but since my vinyl generally gets played once, recorded, and filed, I don’t need much. That’s an old trick I learned from Sam the Record Man in abut 1986 or 87. “Play it once, record it, and put it away for safe keeping.”
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That’s how I treat my cd’s.
I play my vinyl. These days I’m lazy with switching the side of the album so one side usually gets played more than once.
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That’s interesting! I used to be that way.
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