In what might've been one of the early foreshadowings of my future strongly anticapitalist attitude, it really bothered me as a kid that CDs did not come with a protective covering over the actual data-carrying part as the media they were replacing had. (3.25" floppy disks, I mean. I was using software on CDs long before I was using music CDs, not in least part because my first computer had no sound card initially.) It felt like the manufacturers wanted your purchases to eventually get scratched up beyond use so that you'd eventually have to go out and buy a replacement. So you can imagine my delight (and frustration) when I, in my middle-aged dotage, discovered MiniDiscs had been big in Japan some 20 to 30 years ago.
They're like colorful, cute little floppy discs. They can be infinitely rewritten, and you can buy them in lots for as little as $1.15 US apiece or so from eBay.
On 2024-12-15 I began printing labels for music I'd purchased on Bandcamp and applying them to the MiniDiscs I'd burned. I used the MiniDisc label generator website to make these.
