RE 'JAPANESE WHISPERS' PICTURE DISC - HIGH PRICE - WE HAVE BEEN TOLD: “Apart from the fact that manufacturing costs have gone through the roof in the past 12 months, the Transclear paper-stock used for Japanese Whispers is much more expensive than a regular cardboard sleeve…
each Japanese Whispers has had to be individually hand packed to avoid tearing the sleeve, which has increased the unit cost even more.” RS
The sleeve has been "over designed" so there are two art elements (anyone remember the original Blue Monday sleeve?)
Yep, I was thinking of Blue Monday when I read all this JW nonsense today. The thing is, why have RS bother in trying to make that cheap and ugly JW sleeve look more appealing just by changing it to that transclear paper? It makes no sense to me. JW is and will always be a cheap release, unless you re-design and re-package the whole thing from a scratch. I’ve always felt that JW was a minor release just because of the ugliness and careless of the artwork and packaging.