[Peter Scott Poitras]

I seem to also remember that the Oils at least tried to their part when they had longboxes to use recycled material construction.

Pete

> 
> From: "Beth Curran" <bcurran at columbus.rr.com>
> Date: 2004/12/30 Thu PM 01:03:21 EST
> To: "Chris Nelson" <sporto219 at hotmail.com>, 
>         "Powderworks Mailing List" <powderworks at cs-lists.cs.colorado.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Powderworks] Oils "Longboxes"
> 
> Wow, does this take me back!  the first CDs were packaged as Chris said, in 
> chipboard outer containers about twice as long as the CD case.  They were 
> packaged like that for 3 reasons:  so they'd be visible in the bins that fit 
> vinyl, so you could still see the cover art (people bitched about the CDs 
> being so small they couldn't see the pictures) and to make them larger and 
> therefore harder to steal.  I distinctly remember reading that the Oils were 
> instrumental in convincing CD manufacturers to stop using the longboxes, on 
> the grounds that they were environmentally wasteful.  Back then I was still 
> reading Rolling Stone on a regular basis, so I bet that's where I read it. 
> Does anybody else remember this? - Beth
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Chris Nelson" <sporto219 at worldnet.att.net>
> To: "Powderworks Mailing List" <powderworks at cs-lists.cs.colorado.edu>
> Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2004 9:52 AM
> Subject: Re: [Powderworks] Oils "Longboxes"
> 
> 
> > To my recollection, the long box was just exterior packaging used to hold
> > CDs in jewel cases.  The longer box was needed to display the then new CDs
> > in the old bins that previously held vinyl albums in the record stores.
> >
> > As the e-bay ad mentions, people usually just discarded the longbox
> > packaging after opening the CD.
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Stephan Jänsch" <stephan.jaensch at gmx.net>
> >
> > currently there are a couple of Oils "Longboxes", special CD issues,  on
> > e-bay, e.g.:
> >
> > http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=307&item=4063864138&r
> > d=1
> >
> > Does anybody own one of these? What else is special about them besides the
> > size (e.g. booklet, design) and are they worth collecting?
> >
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