Does anyone else hate it when by some stroke of fate your jewel cases get cracked. I was sitting down in my room re-ripping some of my CastleVania OST collection when my brothers come in and trip on my lovely pile of OSTs. Now Gallery of Labyrinth and Dracula X/Bloodlines are both cracked. The inserts are still fine but to know that my collection is horribly marred is attacking my brain. Spending the kind of money on Drac X is not something I want to do again but I have this feeling that I might go out and replace them at some point.

With that being said does anyone know any places that sell the White Double Disc Jewel Cases or the Double Disc Gallery of Labyrinth style case? Does it bother anyone else as much as it bothers me? I remember buying a brand new copy of the Seiken Densetsu 3 OST and upon opening the teeth holding disc 3 were already busted. Stuff like that really disheartens me.

I'm a perfectionist and a completionist but there's only so much you can do you know?  I occasionally get cracked CDs casesin the mail and I just put them on the shelf as with any physical collection of any sorts things are bound to wear over time. Cases are just one of the easier things to break.

My brother took the stickers out of my ff7 sscx non le edition and used them on his notebook for school. I was pissed but what am I going to do about it? 

I'm sure you can buy replacement cases for them if you want. I've never gone that far though.

Actually, I know how you feel... I'll go to great lengths to satisfy my needs for perfection. I've pretty much replaced all the cases on all my PS1 games and will do everything in my power to make sure they are complete and non-greatest hits versions. OC? Most definately.

Still, for some reason I'll let stuff like that slide on carts - probably cause I know how hard it is to keep those boxes in good shape/around.

yea, i bought a few older OSTs last month and on one of them had the front case cracked. luckily, it was a standard case so it's replacable.

what bothers me more is when used stuff is dirty and scratched. hard to fix that....

Oh well, accidents happen. That stuff used to bug me so much also, but I just tell myself it's all going to perish one day anyway. Might as well not lose sleep over it. Still, the OCD side of me knows it's there....

If I'm responsible for the damage (I have dropped a few cases or accidentally leaned on them) then I accept the fact and try to be more careful. When they come from the store that way it's a bit more bothersome. Especially when you know it was somebody on the other end that shouldn't have packaged it that way. One time I got a CD that had the booklet creased and rumpled so badly I had a hard time pulling it out of the case.

It also bugs me the way other people treat their things. I don't put so much as a fingerprint on any of my discs, but the few I've lent out over the years have all come back (well, one didn't even make it back) with some type of permanent marking. I'm admittedly a neat freak, but I honestly don't know what people do to put this type of wear on their stuff. You take the disc out, you put the case on a shelf or table or the top of your TV, or at least a part of the floor out of the way of foot traffic. How hard is that? And where is the dirt coming from? Unless you have dogs or live in a tepee I don't know how to explain all that grime. Maybe I don't want to know. Couch crevices aren't the best places to store things, and neither is the floor of your car. Also, the trash can is where garbage goes, not those aforementioned places. Reminds me of that Friends episode where Ross ends up in a woman's apartment filled with crap and there's something moving underneath all the crap.

/soapbox

It's not so much the state of my material possessions that concerns me but the lack of respect some people show. They're just too lazy to care. Anyway, if you really want to damage a CD, the most fun way is, of course, the microwave.

I have to agree with all the above; stuff like this makes it really hard to find second-hand merchandise in decent condition sometimes.

I have a crack going down the middle of my ass, is it broken?

People, you're sick. Seek a doctor.

lolthread.
But then, is it better to keep the original cracked case, or to switch it for a mint case you know isn't the original?
Completionists & perfectionists (and both) out there, thoughts? ^^;

Hmmm... I have a hard time caring about what you say, I mean ever since you made it perflectly clear how you feel about homosexuals in that other thread. I think that's a bigger problem. You're sick, seek a doctor.

Keep the original cracked case for sure.  Original cases with imperfections beat out new non-original cases any day.  Especially true if it's something you plan on keeping forever, be proud to show off those battle scars!

Quite a few of my VGM albums aren't even close to being "mint" anymore but they're mine and I don't plan on selling them, so I'm fine with it as long as the disc is still playable.  Back when I bought the FFVII OST (my first VGM purchase) I'd take it with me everywhere along with a Sony Discman, so naturally the outer case is pretty beat up.  Wouldn't have it any other way though.

Right on, the music is what matters! But this reminds me, FFVII OST was my first purchase as well, and I wrote in the booklet with a pen all the English translations for the track titles. Looks horrible now. I did that with a number of my first soundtracks actually, until I started writing the names on a separate piece of paper. I just had to know the name of the song I was listening to.

i keep the original cracked case if it isn't 100% identical to the regular jewel cases you find everywhere. i don't want to disturb the harmony

What, telling the truth instead of politically correct BS? Unlike you, I'm perfectly sane.

I'd rather worry about a jewel case being cracked than what orifices people are making love to behind closed doors - at least I have control over the former. Sorry if that confuses you. If you feel like wasting time with the later, by all means beat that bible a little bit harder, you seem to have a nack for it. Real original for someone named Moses...

You're delusional.

Actually, keep this coming; it's fun....

And why am I delusional? For letting people live their lives and not stoning them because they f--- the "wrong" hole? If you believe in God, why would you bother wasting your time hating a group of people he's "supposedly" sending to hell for being "supposedly wicked" anyway?

I think that's delusional.

You're delusional because you assume that someone who doesn't appreciate homosexuality and uses "Moses" as his nickname is a religious zealot. As a matter of a fact, I'm an atheist.

Well, you're an asstheist if you don't appreciate homosexuality. Go away and stop ruining the 'reputation' of atheists, even if there's lots of more idiots in that silly bunch of people.

*Disclaimer: people who believe in some silly religion are also silly.

I believe the word you're looking for is "ignorant." Yes, you can be "delusional" about things you don't know but it's not really a good fit in this case.

Anyway, I can't read minds and really, outside of your initial, "ignorant" post - which really gave anyone with eyes a glimpse of the real Moses – that’s all I really need to know about you. I'd rather be as obsessive compulsive geek than a bigot and that has nothing to do with being politically correct. I have some friends who don't like gays and that doesn't drive us apart because that's their opinion; the difference between them and you is they can present their opinion in a respectful manner.

As for making fun of your name, that was just in good fun and way too funny to pass up. If you're name was anything non-biblical, I wouldn't have gone there.

Additionally, I have to wonder, does your problem with gays perhaps stem from issues with your own sexual identity? It's always those with a grudge against homosexuals that get annoyed when their own sexuality is called into question, and quite frankly, that is simply hysterical.

Next you’ll tell me you’ve never had a homosexual thought.

I want the last 45 seconds of my life back immediately.

That's the original quote. Nothing's changed since then. It's just a honest opinion.

Well, it was fun while it lasted. Bye.

I propose that Moses and Ashley Winchester are actually one and the same, and are in fact offshoot personas of the original poster, FuryofFrog, who created this topic to hash out his conflicting thoughts over OCD and homophobia.

Looks like I've...

(puts on shades)

cracked another case.

.......
(No offense to any of the names above, good sirs.)

Well duh. Thats of course why I made this topic.

I'm glad your so insightful

YEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

Heh, looks like this strayed WAY off-topic, but getting back to the subject, this reminds me of something that happened to me that really sucked. For the last several years, I usually leave my home for a couple months each year to stay with family and have a vacation. Since my home is shared with my fiance's family, it's no problem for us to take off and leave all of our things behind. However, they like to stay in our bedroom from time to time to play with our big collection of games or whatever. No issues there, but one year I came back and after a week or so, I noticed that the usual alphabetical order of my CD shelving unit that I use for Japanese PS1 games and my soundtracks was all screwy and that a lot were upside down too. So I start pulling stuff out, and I soon realized that something happened. Turns out that one of the parakeets flew behind the thing, and in their urgency to pull it out, they accidentally dumped everything out. And they didn't think it necessary to even tell me until I asked about it. :/ Needless to say, a bunch of cases did get cracked. Talk about disheartening, but I can be thankful that my rarer and more valuable soundtracks are okay, and almost everything that got cracked is in a generic case. I haven't bothered to swap out the broken pieces, but I have no qualms about that since so much of what I buy is used anyway and there's no way to tell if a generic case has been replaced before I even got it.

Anyway, no matter how OCD someone is, this kind of stuff is bound to happen. I mean, I have some games and music CDs that got cracked cases in an earthquake several years back too. That's just life.

Man, I hope I'm not commenting on this topic too late to be of any help...

Yes, very much so. Ordering from CD Japan, Amazon.com, or whoever else, at times, I'd at least get ONE cracked case in every order, and in mutliple occurrences, all of the cases on all of the albums I had in one order were cracked (O_O) How they hell do they manage that, except professional neglect?

Anybody who's ever bought anything from me can attest to how tightly and securely I pack everything, so nothing gets cracked, especially when you consider how much I detest getting cracked cases...

Always a bad idea leaving them on the floor... (-_-);

Good choices are FYE (ESPECIALLY FYE, if you even have one near you; I used to get multiple disc cases from them all the time...fortunately, I haven't needed them in awhile); Best Buy's kind of a toss-up, might or might not have them; if you don't completely despise Wal-Mart, I believe that's the place I last got some cases, but I think they were single disc, only.

Unless the case is one of those "special" cases (for example, the Enterbrain CD cases that came with Mario Party 3, Mario Tennis, Majora's Mask Orchestrations, and Mario Story OSTs), then I normally don't care. The beauty is in the CD and liner notes - meh on the case.

i opened a sealed brandish piano collection a few days ago and i love shiny, flawless cases. the smell of japanese print products of the 90s (liner notes/obi) is almost worth another debate

I know I can readily find replacement cases and stuff for my collection but the American cases aren't the same. I agree with everyone else here. The CD, Liner notes, and Obi hold the most value and the case, whatever. There is a part of me that is really OCD and I feel almost depressed looking at my cracked cases, especially if I spent a lot of money on it (cue Drac X/Bloodlines) So I guess there is no place to get the Japanese style cases. In anycase thanks for everyones suggestions on where to look.

Oh well. At least I still have the rest of the stuff in great condition. Do any of you guys get like this about any of your other possessions? Like book bindings or game cases or whatever?

I once thought about re-purchasing Final Fantasy X to replace the shoddy case it came in, but then the thought occurred to me to just switch its case with another game, the likes of which was such a piece of crap, I think I just gave it away...well, maybe I traded it in...for like, less than $1...