Artwork is wrapping up on Maintain Radio Silence, and it looks great. George Otvos, as usual, has done a great job.

A thought of mine for a while, regarding physical music product, has been that as it has moved from large albums, which took up a lot of space, to cassette tapes and CDs, that there has been some sort of subconscious impact on the "space" society gives music within our daily lives.

If you buy that, its just another reason why less and less people buy music at the $14-$15 level...its just not worth that much to anyone anymore. Without the time - the "space" allocated in our lives - to digest whole albums and experience new music, no one's willing to spend even half of historical CD prices to purchase whole albums.

In piecing together Maintain Radio Silence's artwork package, I am really happy about the decision to have the album done in DVD packaging. Not only is there more room in the booklet contained inside - which is nice! - but I am interested to see how people respond to the larger, unorthodox DVD-style packaging of the album.

I suspect it will be received favorably, as the art looks really cool, and its likely that when I am running a label as my fulltime job, I will release all label albums in this larger DVD packaging. Not only is the larger size of the DVD package a "plus", but there is perceived value in anything looking like a DVD these days - they are just that popular.

Maybe its much ado about nothing, who knows. But I like that the album looks a little different even BEFORE you hear any of it.

I have my Operations exam tomorrow from 1 PM to 4 PM, and then Finance's final exam from 8 AM to 11 AM (ouch!) on Wednesday. Then, it'll be naptime before LORD OF THE RINGS: RETURN OF THE KING that night!!!

Also, the Titans beat the Bills today (in Nashville) behind 3 TD (2 passing, 1 rushing) of Billy Volek...and Vanderbilt men's basketball is now 6-0 and, with a couple of SEC road wins, headed toward an NCAA Tournament berth.

Better get to sleep - after the exam tomorrow, I'm going out with Lori to dinner with her aunt and uncle at Carrabba's! YUM.