Musicians have been conscious of the environment since long before the first Earth Day in 1970, and many artists (including Jack Johnson and Pearl Jam) have taken active steps to help improve the environment and decrease their impact on the Earth while out on the road. (Touring, on the whole, is an incredibly destructive force that soaks up gasoline, releases poisonous gasses into the air and leaves a trail of trash wherever tour buses tend to roll.) But even though those artists are tree-friendly, there have been a handful of moments in rock history that could be considered Earth un-friendly.
The CD Longbox
When compact discs first hit the market back in the 1980s, they came housed in narrow foot-long cardboard boxes that then held the plastic CD case. Theoretically, they were meant to slide into the same sort of racks that held vinyl records (which were slowly being phased out...
The CD Longbox
When compact discs first hit the market back in the 1980s, they came housed in narrow foot-long cardboard boxes that then held the plastic CD case. Theoretically, they were meant to slide into the same sort of racks that held vinyl records (which were slowly being phased out...
- 4/22/2010
- by Kyle Anderson
- MTV Newsroom
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