What's with all the silly sticky security stickers?

Okay, here's my rant for the day. Whenever I buy a current high-grossing, super-popular blockbuster movie that has just gone to DVD, like Star Wars III or Spiderman 2, there's maybe one security band sticker on the side of the DVD case. I can handle that.

Why is it that movie musicals on DVD always come with three stickers on the case -- one on the stop, one on the side and one on the bottom! And the more obscure the musical, the more sticky stickers! Is there really a problem with bands of musical theatre geeks roaming through video stores stealing DVDs out of their cases? I recently bought a double DVD set of STATE FAIR which included the original 1945 movie and the 1962 remake (with Pat Boone and Ann-Margret no less) and it took me a day and a half to unwrap the silly thing!

I mean, for heaven's sake, when our car was broken into last year what did the thieves take? The hundreds of dollars worth of musical theatre CDs? Or the two flats of bottled water worth about $6.99 from Staples? COMPANY or H20? WICKED or water? You guessed it -- all the water was gone but Sondheim and Schwartz (and others) remained in the front seat of my car.

So maybe the DVD manufacturers could ease up on those security stickers on the movie musicals -- us theatre lovers are an honest bunch...honest!

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