Hype stickers. What are your thoughts?

[Mr Bump]

Just wondering...

I kept the hype stickers from my new Red and Blue CDs, slipping them inside the cover with the booklet. Just realised the Red one was lost so went and rummaged in the car and found it - it apparently fell out the other night.

I don't really know why I keep them but they are part of the package and printed in the right artwork style etc, so it seems wrong to chuck them out.

Does anyone else keep them? Does anyone actually collect them? Or are they bin-fodder? Curious to know what others think...

[Lord Reith]

I keep them yes. I like all that stuff.

[Mr Bump]

I'll often peel them from the shrink wrap (if possible) and stick them to the actual cover - but sometimes just cut around them and keep them like stamps or something.

[C90]

I'm a fan too and retain them when I can - if they're on shrinkwrapped CDs I'll snip round the wrap and keep it inside the CD lid.... with shrinkwrapped LPs I'll just slice down the side of the cover if it's a single sleeve, for gatefolds I'll still try and keep the shrink even though they get wrinkled up a bit! (But at my age, everything is )
It's all part of the packaging, and printed ephemera of the present will always have some interest in the future

I buy used LPs and old ones from the 50s and 60s sometimes have stickers on the back advertising the shop which stocked the record, and they're cool to have - independent music or radio/TV appliance stores, all long gone.

We're not alone in appreciating the older hype stickers, usually applied to shrinkwrapped LPs in the US - Japanese record labels often go to the effort of replicating them (plus other inserts, posters etc) with mini-LP CD reissues.

[billylentz]

I always keep this kind of stuff. Where? It depends on each CDs. On the case of the Red, I think I´ll glue it on the inner face of the booklet wallet inside the digipack. Other option is on a blank space on the last page of the booklet.

But it dependes. On conventional jewel cases, if they have a clear tray with no particuarly special background, like on the new Stones CD, I´ll just put the stickers there. On digipacks with a whole on the CD wallet, like of "Kisses on the buttom", I´ll glue the sticker on the inner side, behind the CD.

[Much2Much]

I keep them too. I search for an appropriate space in the accompanying booklet, on the cover or just slip them in loose. I also keep any free CD rip code cards that often come with vinyl re-issues like the Paul McCartney Archive Collection. It's all part of the fun.

[mitchellmichael]

I always keep them too.

[Rickenbacker325]

I have hype stickers going back to the 80’s…I save every one of them…on CD’s I snip it off with a scissor and stick it inside the cover. When we were first buying all of the solo LPS in the late 70’s and 80’s there were tons of leftover Apple albums so I have a bunch of those as well

[Kwai Chang]

In L.A., we have a much higher average means<----->extremes ambient temperature dynamic in degrees farenheit that adhesives might never harden, candy, dry out. out-gas, ooze, stain, tear, fall-off, stay-stuck, et cetera, and on and on------>obey my wishes. I'm not obsessed(but, oh, REALLY???)...I've become the specialist that never uses solvents...only climate to assist me. Almost all vintage 60's promo stickers are too valuable to peel(Ooops, it ripped). And 70's adhesives should be known as Ultra-Pliable/WILL NOT PETRIFY(like an RCA Dynaflex vunyl LP) meaning MASSIVE capilary action. But, how many hours, stickers, artists, mediums, time invested, rarities, net gain/loss, or intellectual fetishisms were determined/verified/lost/realized???
STOP!!!
It's a meanial waste of organised thought...a massive waste of entertainment-redemption and ALL so lo-fi that you wind up noticing that Capitol Record's 'vented' shrink wrap is vintage and used through early seventies is unique and will only valuate a rare 2nd state butcher cover if sealed or 'unopened or peeked into or...
PLAY IT!
What was the question???
So, you might need a new weatherman...
or, forum advice from outside my five mile radius.
Respectfully, ALL true!
KC

[C90]

In L.A., we have a much higher average means<----->extremes ambient temperature dynamic in degrees farenheit that adhesives might never harden, candy, dry out. out-gas, ooze, stain, tear, fall-off, stay-stuck, et cetera, and on and on------>obey my wishes. I'm not obsessed(but, oh, REALLY???)...I've become the specialist that never uses solvents...only climate to assist me. Almost all vintage 60's promo stickers are too valuable to peel(Ooops, it ripped). And 70's adhesives should be known as Ultra-Pliable/WILL NOT PETRIFY(like an RCA Dynaflex vunyl LP) meaning MASSIVE capilary action. But, how many hours, stickers, artists, mediums, time invested, rarities, net gain/loss, or intellectual fetishisms were determined/verified/lost/realized???
STOP!!!
It's a meanial waste of organised thought...a massive waste of entertainment-redemption and ALL so lo-fi that you wind up noticing that Capitol Record's 'vented' shrink wrap is vintage and used through early seventies is unique and will only valuate a rare 2nd state butcher cover if sealed or 'unopened or peeked into or...
PLAY IT!
What was the question???
So, you might need a new weatherman...
or, forum advice from outside my five mile radius.
Respectfully, ALL true!
KC

Thank you, as ever, Professor Kwai Chang...!
A note to students, the next episode of the Open University degree in advanced meteorological chemistry (adhesives and solvents module) will appear here next week.