I know where you're coming from John, but for me I think I'd actually rather have the cardboard... as the lesser of two evils. Jewel cases just break too easily. My VBOFM cracked along the front within a week or so of buying it thanks to a hurriedly excited CD exchange with a friend in a Tokyo hotel corridor. ARGHH I was a bit mad. But those things inevitably break if you take them places. Now I have a CD carrying case with sleeves ... but even then it's nice to take the booklets also. SO at least with the cardboard ones, I can expect a reasonable amount of fraying around the edges (like any LP when you think about it), but at least it stays in one piece!
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Joe
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