Bad CD! Sticky CD!

Recently, I've had a spate of "sticky CDs" (e.g. Marty Ehrlich's Line on Love and to a lesser extent Radiohead's Hail To The Thief).

A sticky CD is one whose jewel case's central ring clings tenaciously to the CD, making extracting it from its box a difficult enterprise, ever menacing to topple over into disaster: the CD bends almost to the point of breaking. The first time, it took me several minutes to get the Ehrlich out. Of course, I could solve the problem by replacing the inner part of the jewel case, but I only have black ring thingies, and nowadays all CDs have transparents. I'm not sure what it says about me that I'd rather risk breaking the CD before tarnishing its look.