Longbox
99% Invisible
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Why We Should Keep the CD Long Box
A head honcho at EMI wrote this opinion piece in Billboard magazine in 1989 entitled Why We Should Keep the CD Long Box. Artists said wait a minute, we don't want you cutting down millions of trees to put our CDs in and then having people throw these things away. "The thing about the long box is that it was never meant to be collected," he says.
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