so is buying a jewel case album worth it?

I hate jewel cases.

absolutely not. whoever told sm jewel cases are a good idea should be fired. we want -thick- photobooks, not thin ones with a fragile jewel case with no cd protection.

I've had so many jewel cases just straight up arrive broken

Normal albums are better

No. In my opinion, physical albums period don't have much use since 90% of people who buy physical albums do not actually use the CD that comes with it.

It's a waste of materials, resources, and hazardous to the environment. A better solution would be to just sell the photobook and let fans buy photocards separately. Unfortunately, that eats into the pockets of the companies, so won't be happening.

Let me hop of my soapbox now lol.

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No. In my opinion, physical albums period don't have much use since 90% of people who buy physical albums do not actually use the CD that comes with it.

It's a waste of materials, resources, and hazardous to the environment. A better solution would be to just sell the photobook and let fans buy photocards separately. Unfortunately, that eats into the pockets of the companies, so won't be happening.

Let me hop of my soapbox now lol.

I haven't purchased a physical album in two years because I no longer own anything that can play CDs anymore (my laptop doesn't have a CD drive, had to replace my car in 2020 and there wasn't even one on the lot with a CD drive).

I'm the same way: it's a waste of resources to go "oh pretty" and then have it collect dust on the shelf. At least when I owned something with a CD player, I could listen to Big Bang while I was running my errands.

So to answer OP's question: for me, the driving factor is the fact that I can't even listen to the CD, not the case it comes in.

i don't have anything that can play a CD so a jewel CD is useless to me.

the selling point of CD nowadays is not the CD. wbk. company is just being obtuse, or opportunistic.

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I haven't purchased a physical album in two years because I no longer own anything that can play CDs anymore (my laptop doesn't have a CD drive, had to replace my car in 2020 and there wasn't even one on the lot with a CD drive).

I'm the same way: it's a waste of resources to go "oh pretty" and then have it collect dust on the shelf. At least when I owned something with a CD player, I could listen to Big Bang while I was running my errands.

So to answer OP's question: for me, the driving factor is the fact that I can't even listen to the CD, not the case it comes in.

Wow. Literally, wow.

To imagine how many millions of CDs are being sold annually. I know there are probably still some people who use CDs, but the amount of people who don't.

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absolutely not. whoever told sm jewel cases are a good idea should be fired. we want -thick- photobooks, not thin ones with a fragile jewel case with no cd protection.

i remember making a thread about this and yeah + bad for the environment

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I have been carting around my old CDs from high school for ages and when I finally started buy kpop albums I broke down and bought a little mini boombox to have a player, but it's also bluetooth compatible so I just keep using that part.

we're the same person

Yeah they’re the best and only thing I want. Everything can be uniform.

I’m going against everybody and say yes lmao Where I’m from BTS albums are not manufactured and only imported so jewel cases are a possibility their albums will be sold for affordable prices.

it's not. and as someone said above, most arrived damaged anyway unless they have special packaging where the jewelcase comes inside another slipcase/sleevebox (SM went through this phase with red velvet for a WHILE and finally let go. however now they are doing the "case" version thing which still sucks for the environment ). if you REALLY love the group (it's bts so i would) then yes, but it's still iffy imo.

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all im going to say is that the jewel case version is going to be MUCH cheaper than the other version for this bts album. its meant to be a budget version and ofc boost sales. lesserafim had a "jewel case version" of their album that wasnt actually a jewel case but was sized and priced similarly so i suspect bts' version will be the same

If price is an issue I'd rather they go with digipak over jewel tbh.