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themadscientist
10-16-2007, 11:37 AM
I just picked up a new Dead Kennedys CD. I'm suprised they had something other than "G"s talking about the size of their rims or skanky chicks lipsyncing pop music.:rolleyes:
Anyway, I am pretty stoked, I have'nt heard some DK in a long time, Think cassette tapes. I tear off the plastic festooned with it's cadre of stickers, "parental advisory" of course. Every time I see that I want to punch Tipper gore in the uterus. We all don't jam to Pat Boone there Tip.
Anyhow, the first barrier to musical bliss has been sucessfully eliminated with extreme predjudice. I flip the CD over and I am confronted with the security seal on the edge. Ah, my old nemesis, we meet again. For years have we battled, from one end of the world to the other we have locked horns again and again. Sticker is a worthy opponent, giving as good as it gets. No two stickers use the same defensive tactics and one must study thy enemy before making the opening move.
I take tenative picks at the tab, probing it's defenses, testing it's response. Seal comes up goo stays, dammit! This is one of the level 10 boss stickers, I'm in trouble. When fencing with the evil stickers I can be patient. I might pick at one corner and then just as the sticker mounts a counter attack I fall back and strike the exposed opposite flank! I am not patient today. Like european warfare of the Napoleonic age I attack straight on, rank after rank crashing against the stickers defence. The stick holds, the sticker buckles, the sticker breaks, I am inside! I have reached the CD which was my goal but at what cost? I survey the battlefeild, goo all up and down the CD case, flaps of sticker still in place mocking me. It was an ugly victory and mop-up operations will continue for some time.
War is indeed an ugly business and this is not my finest hour on the feild of battle but mission accomplished. I need to call in a Googone strike now. I love the smell of Googone in the morning. It smells like,,victory.

To the guy who invented these @$^&in things; I will kill you slowly if I find you! I will inject you with a lethal poison and then give you the antidote. Ah but there is a catch, it will be sealed on all four sides with these *&^%in stickers you bastard! Armed with nothing but your fingernail you will need to defeat your own creation to reach the elixir that will save your life :cursing:

Seriously, what is the point of these things? You have to peel off a plastic wrapper to get to a CD or DVD already, the store detective if he is not sleeping should catch this. These are extraneous and serve to just piss off and frustrate the owner. You know, the dumbass who actually paid to be frustrated by this evil little thing.

Upside, good disk, and these Googone fumes are sure taking the edge off :w00t:

Fonze
10-16-2007, 11:44 AM
Is Tipper to blame for that awful invention?

DocTurtle
10-16-2007, 11:48 AM
The is actually an easy way to bypass them! I learned from some blink 182 video on the internet I believe. What you do is instead of fighting through the label thing, you actually open the CD in reverse. Just pull one side of the CD case so that you can get one of the prongs out of the hole and vola! Easy access :)
Oh and which album is it? A new one? I remmeber when I was stoked cause I found a Misfit album a Wal-Mart of all places! :) I haven't heard much DK since give me conveinance or give me death.

themadscientist
10-16-2007, 11:48 AM
PMRC (parents music resource center) headed by Tipper Gore. Oh you though Al was the only killjoy in that family?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PMRC

themadscientist
10-16-2007, 11:50 AM
The is actually an easy way to bypass them! I learned from some blink 182 video on the internet I believe. What you do is instead of fighting through the label thing, you actually open the CD in reverse. Just pull one side of the CD case so that you can get one of the prongs out of the hole and vola! Easy access :)

Haha! I just taped it together and tried it, works smooth as silk. So if you wanted to steal it, very easy; use the case as intended damned near impossible. :mad:

DocTurtle
10-16-2007, 11:56 AM
Aww, don't even get a thanks? :p lol.
Good to hear that it works for you :D

themadscientist
10-16-2007, 12:01 PM
Goo all gone, sinuses clear; unexpected benefit.
Neat trick there doc. Can you help me with my Rubik's cube? i have had one side solved for like a month. :crying:

DocTurtle
10-16-2007, 12:10 PM
lol, not a chance. YouTube it :p

Fonze
10-16-2007, 12:13 PM
That's a neat trick DocTurtle I have to try it soon. What we use to do in the 90's was take razorblades and just go along the case, pop it open and the get the cd and bounce. Damn teenagers:old:

Tempestuous
10-16-2007, 01:03 PM
I usually pop the other edge open pull the disc out and toss the case. Don't have the patience to battle that damn tape for eternity.

Have to try and remember the pop the other side of the case thing....interesting trick!

Bones
10-16-2007, 06:08 PM
Personally, I've always used a trusty old razor blade. Slit, slit, slit, done.

Those security tapes really used to p-ss me off. What was even worse, you've wasted all this time removing the security tapes, just to find out that the movie /music cd, SUCKS!!!:cursing:

NBTP

DougP
10-16-2007, 08:37 PM
Man those and the stupid stickers on DVDs. :( Yet another reason why I support media down loading. Legal and illegal. :D

DocTurtle
10-16-2007, 09:05 PM
I used to have a little plastic check chain that had a razor in it that fit just around the side of a CD case and you just swipe it from one side to the other and it would cut the stickers right off. I loved that thing. :)

themadscientist
10-16-2007, 09:22 PM
This thing?
http://www.streettech.com/archives_gadget/ezCD.jpg

DoctorP
10-17-2007, 12:38 AM
TMS....funny OP! Locking horns with your old nemesis! ROFL!

themadscientist
10-17-2007, 08:34 AM
It's strange how certain small things set me off. I can blow a head gasket on my car which will entail all sorts of inconvenience and monetary outlay and shrug it off with a chuckle. I can't get a stupid sticker off a $12 CD and I am seriously about to flip out, deep breaths chanting "goosefraba" etc. Weird :cursing:
I must have some repressed childhood trauma involving a sticker.