[Iain]

Originally Posted by atsonicpark

The reason I bumped this thread...

For the new scissor shock album, I made up 50 promo copies. The actual album is going to be limited to 50 copies, so I made up 50 promos, which had the art copied from a printer with some neatly-handwritten text for the tracklisting, album title, etc. You know, not a super professional thing but actually quite time consuming and costly when you consider I mailed out 50 of these to places like Bulgaria and shit.

Anyway, the response has been quite good, a lot of people like the new album..

But I've gotten one email from someone saying they wouldn't review it because there's no packaging.. okay, fair enough.. then I got a review from vitalweekly saying how the music was great but the packaging sucked so they weren't going to say anything about it until I sent them a well packaged release.

Now in all seriousness, when did noise and related genres become all about the packaging? My music has always been about music and nothnig more -- I don't give a fuck if it's packaged in a condom or whatever, that's the last thing on my mind. However, the more I started thinking about it, the more I noticed noise releases over the years........ "this is some good feedback stuff but MAN THE PACKAGINGI S CRAZY" I always see reviews like that, never noticed it before.

I'm going to do an experiment wherein I release something in the craziest fucking package ever and release a CD of silence and see how many good reviews I get.

Funny you should mention that actually. I was reading a review only today on Vital Weekley (of Goh Lee Kwang) that complained about the packaging. Frans De Waard obviously has a thing about packaging.