Green Day, according to a story on MacWorld, is “selling own-branded CD-Rs to fans who want to burn digital versions of their albums.” As you can see from the above image, this means that the CD-Rs have the cover art from each of their five full-lengths.
According to the shop where you can buy the CD-Rs, the idea behind the disc is to “download music legally and burn your own Green Day compilations.”
Riiiiiiiiiight. Yeah, the images are printed right on the CD-Rs, and they come with “coordinated colour slimline cases” and “a rare photo of the band”, but, seriously, who the fuck is willing to pay 7.99 (with free shipping) for five blank cds, when you can just as easily go to your local big box store and pick up a spindle of fifty for ten dollars on sale? As far as the art on the discs go… well, you can buy cd labellers for damn cheap, and they can be used to make way more than five cds.
And for that matter, if they think I’m gonna pay ten bucks to download their albums off iTunes, then pay another $1.75 for the privilege of burning it onto cd, when I can go to the store and buy it for two bucks more (less, if you’re buying any of those used), they have to be out of their damn minds.
I wonder what the cost of buying five blank discs with slimline cases, and burning ’em off from Soulseek is?