5inches - does size matter?

May 2, 2003 8:03 AM

5inch.com manufactures beautiful silkscreen-printed CDRs, custom CDR designs, and unconventional jewel cases for those who release their own music on a small budget, or for making the essential pre-relationship mix CD. When you're done, package it and mail it out.
posted by dhoyt (18 comments total)

Cool.
posted by gottabefunky at 8:12 AM on May 2, 2003

My Favorite: Yellow Pad.
posted by ColdChef at 8:24 AM on May 2, 2003

How many men would buy a T-shirt that advertises their, umm, "shortcoming".
posted by sharksandwich at 8:43 AM on May 2, 2003

I suspect that the t-shirts might be misunderstood. If they'd named the themselves 9inch, I might consider it... :-)
posted by oissubke at 8:44 AM on May 2, 2003

I used 5inch media for my mefi swap this quarter. Quick and easy ordering, and I didn't have to worry about making any cover art.
posted by jazon at 8:52 AM on May 2, 2003

You're in the grocery store. You ask someone where's the cereal aisle. The person points you in the right direction. What do you do? You make a mother fucking mix tape.

genius.
posted by Frasermoo at 8:53 AM on May 2, 2003

I love the idea of the custom silkscreened art on blanks, but am I missing something or is 5inch charging over a buck for a blank CD? That's a high price to pay for being stylish for the 30 seconds it takes to pop the CD in the player.

The beauty of the Google advertising links on the right is that I can immediately see that 5inch's prices are about twice as much as their competitors' for four-color custom silkscreened CDs.
posted by MegoSteve at 9:33 AM on May 2, 2003

I picked up a box of those Verbatim Vinyl-like CDRs for 4.50 at Target.

Read about them a few months back, and they're already on the discount shelf. I haven't used one yet, but damnit.. I'll find something worthy of it :)
posted by shadow45 at 9:49 AM on May 2, 2003

For the record... Worst. Shirt. Idea. Ever.
posted by KnitWit at 10:09 AM on May 2, 2003

Also for the record... I. Rarely. Read. Prior. Posts.

/sorry
posted by KnitWit at 10:15 AM on May 2, 2003

I personally just buy blank cd's and make the cd covers myself using Roxio Easy CD Creator's CD Label Creator and some Fellowes blank CD labels.

It's extremely simple to do and you just need access to a color printer (but I even like the one's I do in black and white.)

I don't see the point of paying someone else to do this (I have too much fun creating them myself).
posted by Julnyes at 11:17 AM on May 2, 2003

I don't see the point of paying someone else to do this

(Pasting a label on a CDR is quite a bit different than silkscreening a CDR in terms of quality & aesthetics, IMO--Also kind of cool to know the $$ is going to creative people)
posted by dhoyt at 11:38 AM on May 2, 2003

I don't see the point of paying someone else to do this (I have too much fun creating them myself).

looks more pro if your doing small runs of your own album. they usually either print it directly on the disc, or if you go all the way pro, silk it.

mixonic is another good source for getting custom cdrs printed (and they have no minimum!)
posted by fishfucker at 12:13 PM on May 2, 2003

thanks dhoyt!
posted by dobbs at 2:27 PM on May 2, 2003

5inch's prices are about twice as much as their

that's like choosing between a car A (pontiac) and car B (BMW) , both cars get you to where you want to go,
car A cost 15,000 USD car B cost 35,000 USD but you get the beauty and style with it, most people who have 35,000 USD choose BMW because we all love style and design
posted by bureaustyle at 2:52 PM on May 2, 2003

Great resource. Thanks, dhoyt.
posted by hama7 at 4:45 AM on May 3, 2003

See also shortrunmusic.com and homemademusic.com.

The coolest service they have is on-demand CD production... for $4 per CD they will burn, print, package and ship full color CDs to people who order them from your page. Sort of the CafePress of music.
posted by Foosnark at 3:38 PM on May 3, 2003

er... just like mixonic.
posted by Foosnark at 3:41 PM on May 3, 2003