Critics may tend to describe the music of Emily Eriksson as "overly saccharine" in their reviews. It is therefore no surprise that her music doesn't exactly hit the taste of doomwitch Ariane Eldar (from Stilldown'sTheater Of The Bloody Tongue)...
I only own a reproduction, but it has a real functional zipper at the cover, too. (And one of the songs, among The Who's "Real Me", that probably saved my life.)
Sounds like you have a very personal connection to this album.
My parents have it both as LP and as CD - and they are indeed both with a real zipper! (But with different looking zippers - the CD one obviously has to be smaller, and I guess in general they may not always get the same type of zipper from the same company...)