Soundgarden Louder Than Love Original LONGBOX 1989 Chris Cornell Grunge NO CD

Description: Not many of these floating around these days!!!! This is such a cool collectors item on a couple different levels!…. A sticker that says “ Developing Artist Series” Wow, no one new how HUUGE this band was going to be. In very nice condition and ready to be displayed in a shadow box or frame! Bottom is opened from where the CD was taken out. When compact discs first began to appear in the retail stores, the longbox packaging served a transitional purpose, allowing shops to file new compact discs in the same bins originally used for vinyl records. Longboxes were 12 inches (30 cm) tall (the same length as the standard 33⅓ LP), and capable of containing two separate discs when necessary. Most longboxes were full color, with details about the compact disc on the back, and artwork that was frequently taken from the original square album cover art, reworked for the new shape and size. There were generic white longboxes with windows that would display the compact disc cover, as well as clear plastic versions that were an inexpensive substitute for a printed longbox. Placing the jewelcase within a cardboard enclosure made for a larger and more cumbersome package that would be more difficult to shoplift from retailers. Longboxes began to fade from popularity as the CDs themselves became more colorful, elaborate, and customized (labels initially printed CDs with standardized, oftentimes black-on-silver labels simply listing basic information about a release and its contents[1]). Longboxes were also considered environmentally wasteful and were expensive to produce. In North America, the drive to eliminate longboxes took hold in Canada first. Longbox packaging was phased out officially as of April 1, 1993, due to the controversy. At the same time, major retail stores were no longer selling vinyl records and had converted their displays to accommodate shrink-wrapped jewel cases, meeting the rising consumer demand for CDs while eliminating the need for longboxes. A further inducement came when Jeff Gold convinced Warner Music's distributors that they could save $25 million by eliminating the expense of using that packaging form and placate retailers by passing on half the savings to them to help ease the conversion to the proper display fixtures. Most original longboxes were discarded upon purchase, and they have since become desirable amongst music collectors.

Price: 49.97 USD

Location: Monrovia, California

End Time: 2024-08-13T23:24:22.000Z

Shipping Cost: 8.92 USD