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yay Pokemon...there was a kid in my local park selling a box full of the things for - like nothing! I should have snapped them up.
Can't say I really get this free postcard gimmick though. Are serious reggae collectors going to take this kind of bait? And is printed in Japan supposed to be an added value thing? Call me skeptical...
Sure I've seen the pics before somewhere...

ACEtone wrote:yay Pokemon...there was a kid in my local park selling a box full of the things for - like nothing! I should have snapped them up.
Can't say I really get this free postcard gimmick though. Are serious reggae collectors going to take this kind of bait? And is printed in Japan supposed to be an added value thing? Call me skeptical...
Sure I've seen the pics before somewhere...

Re - Pokemon cards:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2ypvv37qXk

Re - Tubby cards:

Dude! Don't forget the 'custom printed paper bag'! You don't see something like that every day!

If they're genuinely 'free' - IOW, the CD isn't any more expensive than the rest of the albums listed at the PS site, then it's just a somewhat neat little extra to do *something* with (Frame them? Prop them up on your mantlepiece? Flog them on eBay? Use them as coasters? I dunno, really). They're probably just offering them to encourage people to buy direct, as a way of bringing in a few extra quid in these troubled times...

FWIW, I decided that I was going to buy the album before I heard about the postcards. The usual website price of £9/10 is pretty much what these discs cost on Amazon and similar anyway.

When is the album out?

September 19th.

But I`m looking forward to the freebies , in their " custom printed paper bag " , so there !!!

Putting aside my skepticism for a moment I do have to concede that paper bags can be very useful things.
If you become anxious for some reason an old rememdy is to put the bag over your mouth and breathe in and out of the bag. This has a calming effect, supposedly. Never had reason to try it myself though...
And, if big enough you can put your lunch sandwich in it. Strickly ital, seen?

I'll have to assume that the bags are made from recycled paper and that the inks are soy based.

How's that for a completely pointless post!?

@ ACEtone ,
There is never such a thing as a pointless post , `cos some old duffer will reply to it !!

@anoraktrev
don't encourage me!

ACEtone wrote:Putting aside my skepticism for a moment I do have to concede that paper bags can be very useful things.
If you become anxious for some reason an old rememdy is to put the bag over your mouth and breathe in and out of the bag. This has a calming effect, supposedly. Never had reason to try it myself though...
And, if big enough you can put your lunch sandwich in it. Strickly ital, seen?

I'll have to assume that the bags are made from recycled paper and that the inks are soy based.

How's that for a completely pointless post!?

The bag can also be placed over the head of the obligatory really fat, ugly woman that the deejays seem to lust over (what exactly is the deal with that?) during sex...

Or over your own. So that she won't be able to recognise you in the future.

Nothing wrong with pointlessness.

just to be academic for a moment - fatness as opposed to skinniness in most third world environments has always been desirable not just sexually but in more obvious practical terms. A bit of extra fat about a person of poor means is insurance against short term famine. A skinny person has less about their physique to guard against food shortages which are and were real problems amongst the sufferahs in JA and many places all over the world.
So a spare tyre and some junk in the trunk signify a form of robust health and health is sexy. In first world, we tend to think in terms of longevity and healthiness in the same way and being fat is not a good way to be if you hope to live for a long time. So skinny is sexy. Can't say I agree. Third world inhabitants tend to think in the shorter term - at least that's the way I understand it.
Maybe I'm a third world man in a first world environment. I'm a fat man in a skinny man's body...

So getting back to the serious matter of the printed paper bags: Did they take into account that they may need to be big enough to fit over the average fat gyals head?
If not a most grievous oversight!
If so, dem cards must be really big!

Absurdem ad nauseum...

Excellent , you guys ! Now your thinking outside da box ! But let`s not get angry , or you`ll be accused of " Having a bag on "........ ( I wonder if it is a custom printed one ? )