This is a little off topic, but this thread makes me feel a little less weird about spending 2 minutes looking for a well-packaged copy of a DVD among 200 or so displayed copies (yes, I came back a second time). I am normal after all.

As for the topic at hand, it hasn't really happened to me, except on my copy of The Usual Suspects. I spent 10 minutes peeling the plastic off with tweezers. It looks alright I guess.

Strange, I only find this on old DVDs. Presumably that have been sitting around somewhere for awhile, apparently melting.

It takes 2 minutes to find a decent one?

I usually stand in a store for 2 hours and find a copy of a DVD with absolutely no scratches and such on the case, but even I don't make a big deal out of a little residue on the spine.

You can barely see it.

So, Megalith, you've had a little "residue on the spine", eh?

(sorry, bad joke, lol)

I did this for the Aladdin: PE. I found a decent one pretty quickly but I was checking to see if any others had cover sheets that were better cut (aligned right) or had a more mint-condition slipcover. OCD-ish, I know. Maybe I'm not normal after all.

Some DVDs though, like old copies of Spirited Away usually have deformed keepcases, at least in my area. The plastic (that holds the cover sheet) is always wrinkled. Always all of them. Same goes for most Ghibli DVDs I see, at least until they were reissued.