When you buy a new album...

New [booklet] smell. 

Every damned word - I want to know the lyrics, who produced, who the additional musicians were, who cleaned the khazi in the studio; when you get an album, and you know by the weight, there's a thick booklet inside, you know the band love you very much...

...what I don't like is when the booklet folds out into a single sheet of paper about the size of your average Ordinance Survey map, and still doesn't contain any information, just an abstract piece of 'art' (or in Steve Vai's case, another picture of him with his cheeks sucked in trying - in vain - to look pretty)

I lick it so no one else will want to eat it.

Edited by Slartibartfast - October 02 2007 at 17:46

That guy always creeps up outta nowhere!!!!

none of it untill I have heard the album all the way through, theres nothing worse than a good consept given away by those damned lyric sheets!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Man With Hat wrote: chamberry wrote: I read the whole thing, but not on the first day I get the album. I read most of it one day, a little another day and so on until I read it all. I think I'll go with "I just quickly glance over it, reading bits here and there" in the same day I buy the album.   This is pretty much how it goes for me as well.

Edited by Bj-1 - October 03 2007 at 09:00

I eventually get around to reading everything. But it depends. I hate meager booklets.

Edited by Arsillus - October 04 2007 at 15:40

Atavachron wrote: Majestic_Mayhem wrote: I read almost everything written on it. But I smell the booklet first.  Yum! I love the smell of CD booklets in the morning...  smells like victory

i read every word, but i wait until after i listen to the album. when i listen to it i just like to focus on the music and nothing else, but afterwards i'm interested to read everything, especially if there are amusing stories and i also like to look at the engineering and production credits. as an audio student, i like to know these things and know who's worked on what and look at similarities between that album and other work they've done.