Recent discussion about Pinch A Loaf release what needs to be cut open to get the tapes... Not sure if this was talked in old topics of special editions. Feelings about items that are everything else but "handy"?
While I often rate handy, durable, compact packaging, now I have had slightly different feel lurking in my brain. Somewhat obsessive attitude towards items being "mint condition", "re-sellable" etc where people are overtly sensitive about their records, books etc, where one can't even leave signs of use to item, but they are storaged in plastic sleeves, away from all signs of life - like old nerds with toy collections.
Where motivation seems to focus on idea that "it will lose value" if it's not "sealed" or "mint". What value? Wouldn't worn out book show that it REALLY did have value to its reader, who hungrily read it anywhere, without need to consider if there few stains and rips or folded pages. Anything else but almost laboratory environment and plastic covers protecting this re-sellable product.
In this context, it feels almost essential that noise release would have something that forces people to step outside neurosis of storaged vacuum bags of mint consumer goods, and actually involve themselves hands-on. Without care of "decrease of value on collectors market".
I recall Brighter Death Now record what was intentionally damaged. Ring wear, bend corners etc. People complained, even if it was meant to be that way. Everybody would get hard-on about rips and stains printed on cover design, simulated with photoshop layers. But when it is actual physical thing, suddenly outrageous act from label?
Many Banned Productions items you needed to little damage to get your hands to tape. At more bizarre cases it could be for example tape covered with tin-foil and dipped in thick layers of paint. No way to access audio in any other way that basically destroying packaging. Or MSBR. What if the grooves of lathecut had some dust in it, as 7" was screwed between couple wood plates? Should one bitch about need of cleaning LP a bit before listening? Perhaps its normal to bitch about getting record what appears "used" or "dirty", when you supposedly paid for "new". But all in all, I feel like leaning towards direction where it could be good to see releases that can't escape being used.
