That was so disappointing when you opened up the album, expecting to find some lyrics or pictures on the inner sleeve, and ended up with a white sleeve with clear plastic middle. Made me kind of hate the artist/band just a teensy little bit. I always used to like to buy those music mags with song lyrics so maybe I was just fixated on knowing what the artists were singing about.

You raise a good point about digital content and the fact that most of what would likely be compelling in a digital album--artist info, artwork, videos--is already widely available at the click of a mouse or the tap of a touch pad on a smart phone. Will be interesting to see what they come up with.

As for your emusic frustrations, Bri, I hear you. Emusic has been bad about surreptiously dropping previously downloaded stuff or even pretending they never offered them in the first place. This happened recently with the Dirty Projectors album, which i grabbed in early July but is now 'No longer available in my country (Canada)'. With the first Ladytron and Jose Gonzales albums, they don't even acknowledge that they ever sold them to me. Almost makes me want to cancel the service until I remember that I'm still getting approximately 7 albums per month from them for an average of $3 a pop.