Ugly covers!

[Sonique]

On 11 Sep 97 at 12:31, John A Swartz wrote:

> I really like tBS covers myself.  But then again, I've never yet bought or
> not bought an album based on the cover.  No wait, I take that back.  I
> actually haven't bought Metallica's *Load* at this point because of the
> cover (although many Metallica fans might say that the music contained
> within is reason enough) -- to me, art is not some guy jerking off, mixing
> it with pig's blood, and throwing it on a sheet of paper.

Good album covers (or perhaps just different ... as lonh as it catches the
eye)  are IMO very important. I spent many a day (as I approached the all
important 24 yr cut off age for musical taste configuration) browsing through
import record stores here in Oz. Many artists which I subsequently got into
were as a result of the cover art.

A classic example is the artwork used on Eloy albums - I saw "Ocean" and had
to have it regardless of the content. I now have all (bar 1) Eloy albums ...

Then again I've bought some utter crap using the same techniques ;^)

Obvioulsy I usually listened to the albums as well before spending the cash,
but the point is that with very poor support for non-charting music in
Australia in the late 70's and 80's, I doubt I'd enjoy my record collection
anywhere near as much as I do!

Sonique

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