Post #167870 by rupe33 on Fri, Jun 24, 2005 1:53 PM

Digipak is the kind of CD package which is all cardboard, no jewelbox. It's an aesthetic dilemma in some ways for me: jewelboxes are a dime-a-dozen, but they offer better protection from the elements and such. Digipaks more accurately re-create the LP experience in that they're a chunk of cardboard you hold in your hand. The risk being that they're easier to damage via water or usage, or if the spokes on the inner tray break the package is kinda useless for holding the disc.

Some CDs that come in digipaks:
-I can feel the heart beating as one by Yo La Tengo (also Electr-o-pura and a number of their titles)
-Mass Romantic by the New Pornographers (first edition)
-The Tigers Have Spoken by Neko Case
-DVD-A version of Shangri-La by Mark Knopfler

I'll work on cutting together bits of 'Quiet Village' in the next week or so in order to demonstrate the difference.

Cheers,
Rupe