I recently got a rather pristine copy of They Might Be Giants’ 1996 single S-E-X-X-Y, mostly for a few bonus tracks unavailable on streaming. Like, it was in shrink wrap with hype sticker, albeit shrink wrap on its last legs - good enough that the rest of it was still in near mint condition, but too damaged for it to be worth keeping on, so I took a 2400 DPI scan of the hype sticker and removed it. Don’t worry - I kept the hype sticker.
I want to keep it very fresh - I ripped the CD to my PC and plan on never taking it out of the case again. For now, I have put a zip lock around the case to prevent it gathering dust or getting fingerprints from handling.
However, since it’s an FLP case, I am more worried about the case being crushed than a typical jewel case. While I don’t plan on getting too ruff with it, I want something a bit harder.
Thus, I was wondering if any of you guys have any particular strategy for this case?
I’ve looked into CD display cases, but am otherwise having trouble finding results that aren’t just CD jewel cases. I was thinking maybe something like the anti-theft containers retailers keep video games in, if they ever made a CD-sized version.
I’ve paid as much as $25 for CDs that were hard to find (bands who were on small contracts/self-pub), but in general no more than $15-20. “Average” as you say maybe $5? Anything that was in the 3 CDs for 5cents club, that’s basically $2 at nearly any thrift store.
The nice thing is that CD collectors aren’t nearly as “particular” as vinyl collectors, and most CD cases are way more durable than the cardboard outer/toilet paper liner of records.