{"id":9580,"date":"2011-09-02T17:06:12","date_gmt":"2011-09-03T01:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/?p=9580"},"modified":"2021-12-01T09:20:26","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T09:20:26","slug":"usb-packaging-icky-thump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/usb-packaging-icky-thump\/","title":{"rendered":"USB Albums: The White Stripes Icky Thump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The White Stripes Icky Thump album \u00a0is one of the handsomest USB music packaging I&#8217;ve seen. It was nominated for a Grammy in \u201cCategory 89: Best Boxed Or Special Limited Edition Package\u201d. Removing their respective hats reveals the USB dongle, plug it in, and you\u2019ll get all of the Icky Thump tracks in Apple Lossless format. The Meg version does not speak. The Jack unit gets pissy if you try to make him pose in front of a yellow wall. The album was released as limited edition <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/custom-usb-drives\/\">USB\u00a0drives<\/a>, each of the 6,666 produced (3,333 of Meg &amp; 3,333 of Jack).\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_White_Stripes#The_number_three\">More info here<\/a>\u00a0about the bands obsession with the number 3.<\/p>\n<p>Would you buy this pair for $99?<\/p>\n<p>Special thanks to: 12MajorChords and Sleevage<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">We here at Unified are obsessed with beautiful USB albums and USB packaging. We\u2019ve been making creative releases since 2008 and lovely packaging has become an obsession of ours. We even have a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.ph\/unifiedmfg\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Pinterest page dedicated to all things media<\/b> packaging<\/span><\/a>. If you want to make a really badass USB album with cool USB packaging, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/instant-quote\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>get a quote<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/portfolio\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>shoot us an email.<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b><i>James Hill<\/i><\/b><i> is a veteran of the music industry. He first worked at Warner Reprise Records then later joined Interscope\/ Geffen Records where he managed producers and songwriters and got his first platinum record for Keyshia Cole&#8217;s The Way It Is. He is now helping indie artists with branding and manufacturing through his company <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><b><i>Unified Manufacturing<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/a><i>, a CD\/DVD\/vinyl and merch company in LA.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White Stripes Icky Thump album \u00a0is one of the handsomest USB music packaging I&#8217;ve seen. It was nominated for a Grammy in \u201cCategory 89: Best Boxed Or Special Limited Edition Package\u201d. Removing their respective hats reveals the USB dongle, plug it in, and you\u2019ll get all of the Icky Thump tracks in Apple Lossless [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,20,17,25,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-custom-merch","category-custom-usb-drives","category-film-music-marketing","category-graphic-design","category-packaging-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9580"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33996,"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9580\/revisions\/33996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}