Long Box Activism of the 80's

Bill K billk at nospam.com
Mon Dec 8 01:55:45 EST 2003


> Someone told me they recently saw those old CD boxes again in the
> stores. Like in Best Buy or something.

They occasionally have them in their "bargain" section.  I've seen them
at Sam's Club, too - they'll sometimes stuff CD's in generic cardboard
longboxes so that they can stuff a whole ton of them in a bin up front.

And they always seem to pop up around Christmas when the stores open up
their box of unsold Christmas CD's from the previous year.  There's a
store near me that I swear has put out the same longbox disc (I think
it's Amy Grant or someone along those lines) every year for the last six
years.


> I once tried to cover a wall in room with them, but stopped 
> halfway through.

I think I just jammed mine in my closet, figuring they might have some
"value".  Hmm, I bet they're still at my parents' house.  Might be time
to test that "value" theory.

Longbox memories: I always loved it when they shrinkwrapped the CD
inside the longbox, which itself was shrinkwrapped.  God, I love
shrinkwrap.

-BK



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