"It freed me from the stereotype of how a CD case is presented, " he says.

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He works with low level electronics and he's about to release the 1-bit Symphony on a single microchip, housed in a CD case.

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In this case, they would get a CD or a download of the album.

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The Witcher series works for the same reason, although in this case CD Red was working with a world that had already been created for them to a large degree.

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The music industry provides a salutary lesson in the dangers of building a business around charging too much for too-large bundles of content (in its case, CD albums).

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In this case, you might take whatever you have saved up right now and buy a five year CD.

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My first trip overseas was that same year, and of course that album was in my CD travel case (1998, people: when you have 24 slots for music to listen to for a week, you choose carefully).

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