Scratch problems on remastered CDs

[nukebass]

Is anyone else having problems with scratches on the new stereo Remastered CDs? So far, three of mine have been scratched to the point of skipping (not including the one that was scratched on receipt) and at least one of them, my A Hard Day's Night copy, can't be fixed (I've run through a repair cycle three times). I haven't had a chance to check the others yet, but I am suspecting the cardboard cases are getting dirty and causing the scratches. I never had a scratching problem with my CDs until these. The mono versions have the plastic sleeves that protect the CDs, but the stereos are just thrown in the case.

[FretlessOnly]

I realize that this is not a practical solution for everyone, but the mono discs came with both paper sleeves and "cloudy" poly sleeves, so I took the poly sleeves from the mono discs and used them for the stereo discs. I am not a big fan of unsleeved discs. Sorry to hear you've had such a problem with these.

[JakeK]

I've copied both the stereo and mono all to my iTunes and have rarely played the discs since ripping. Sorry to hear about your problem, Capitol Records should have really thought it through.

The same problem lies with last year's releases from Tom Petty, Mojo and Damn the Torpedoes [Deluxe Edition]. both came in digipacks and were both thrown into the cardboard covers. I listen to them more frequently than The Beatles' remasters, so I'm worried I might have the same problem as you.

[nukebass]

I thought about burning them to the computer and then making copies of them (I take them to the truck a lot and I don't have an mp3 player in there), but, especially with the Beatles, I'm really particular about the original spacing between songs since I know them really well and have never figured out how to burn a disk to exactly copy an album. I should probably do that anyway.

I hadn't thought about using the sleeves out of the mono disks since I am using the plastic sleeves with them. That's certainly a thought. I wonder if similar sleeves are available in the store. I'll have to check.

This is why I have decided not to take my mono CDs out of the house, even though it is weird to listen to stereo versions of the first four albums. At least the stereo versions are easily replacable.