Share your Shaped CDs

I've seen a lot of discussions on here about different formats, but I have yet to find one on shaped CDs.
So, here it is...

I realize these are total novelty items and not playable in all players. Some probably don't play in any player.

I have seen shaped CDs featuring the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Kiss and others. I have a bunch of them ranging from kids discs to soundtracks to product promotions.

I'm talking CDs here, not records. That's a whole different thread.

Here's my Aretha Frankin rose-shaped disc:



I also have shaped CDs from Cake, Vince Gill, Adam Sandler, Cracker, Burger King and NASA (CD-ROM), to name a few.
Show us your shaped CDs!

 

Love the warning!
Those are pretty cool
Odd I have zero, well, one if you count an old Discovery Systems warp a shape
Hopefully we get some other pictures

 

Maybe I'm the only one who has any.

 

I have a few that are round

 

Hollywood Rocks The Movies



This CD includes comments from Steve Binder, Pat Boone, Nancy Sinatra, Mickey Dolenz, Arlo Guthrie, Chubby Checker, Little Richard, Leslie Gore, Fabian, Walter Shenson, Brian Wilson, Dick Dale, Joe Smith and Ringo Starr.

 

Dimmu Borgir - Alive in Torment and a Fantomas/Melt Banana split single is all I think I have.

 

Radiohead released "A Moon Shaped Pool" on a CD that is shaped like a full moon...

 

I want one of these!

 

Does these all play OK?!?

 

It depends on the disc and the player as best I can tell.
I have a St. Louis Rams helmet shaped disc from Super Bowl XXXIV that would not play in my desktop PC. I could hear the disc violently wobbling around!
But it played in the laptop (with less-violent vibrations), presumable because the disc snaps into the tray before closing.

Others play fine, some not at all.

 

Yeah, you would NOT want to try playing one of these in a slot loading player!

 

Surely we remember "business card cd-roms"?

 

As far as I can tell, this disc from Shape CD, Inc was made to promote the use of their shaped CD to market your product.

We Shape The World - Shape is the Future

 

an unbalanced disc will cause micro-
vibrations that can ruin any CD player.
Even a tiny fraction, such as a stick-on
label on one side of the disc will throw
the balance enough to damage the
player. This is why some libraries
have started to use circular "ring"
labels, which fit around the hub,
replacing many older tagging systems
in which a label was placed on one
side of the area of the semi-circle.

 

Only shaped cd I have anymore is a sampler of tunes from the soundtrack of Animal House.

 

Ahh you're no fun...

And to think, I just ordered my banana-shaped edition of The Velvets first album...

 

Here's another I recently acquired:



Various - Digital Club Festival 1999 - Multimedia CD Badge

 

Universal Music should reissue The Andromeda Strain SDTK and try and replicate the original Kapp gimmick cover/disc packaging of the vinyl scaled down to the size of a CD reissue.

 

Mark "Chopper" Read was a Melbourne standover-man and sociopath, who spent most of his life in prison. While is prison he chopped of his ear, I think he was called "Chopper" before that because of butchery to others. In middle age he left his life of crime, and capitalized on it with a series of pulp books recounting his tales (most likely heavily ficitionised), comedy club speaking appearances, etc. He released a CD, one of which was shaped to his famous head:

This is the only pic I could find, it's from eBay so it may not last long...


I knew the guy who ran the Melbourne company that cut these CDs (and others), I hoped he would give me some of his work but I didn't manage to score. He did give me a CD of a band he managed, which didn't achieve their lucky break (I thought they had potential). He also had a music publishing business, which didn't appear to be too successful.

 

Is this the "Chopper" you're referring to? Chopper Read

 

I only have one. David Bowie, Hearts Filthy Lesson.

David Bowie - The Hearts Filthy Lesson

 

Yes, there is only one "chopper" in our town, and that's him.

 

Project Pitchfork-I Live Your Dream, 1999 (CUBA Shape Germany)