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Originally Posted by Nobody
I think generally longboxes just house the regular cd release.
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yep, for some reason in up until the mid-90s-ish, that's how CDs were shipped and sold in the States. cf.
A Year And A Half In The Life Of Metallica, when we first saw it and saw how the album was shipped in similar longboxes we thought we were missing out!
my Dad used to go to the States a lot in the early 90s and brought back "normal" CD boxes. when i asked him how did he get them like that and not in those long boxes, he explained that they all did come in them, but he just tossed them!
perhaps they did it as some sort of anti-shoplifting plan?