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Others have already echoed my thoughts on copyright, so I won't repeat that, but I do want to raise one other point you touched upon: > I doubt many people car
by laumars 9y ago
Others have already echoed my thoughts on copyright, so I won't repeat that, but I do want to raise one other point you touched upon:
> I doubt many people cared much about the album cover
Back in the old days of 12 inch records, people did care about album covers. I mean yeah, the music obviously matters more but album artwork was actually pretty important as well.
One of the things I feel we've lost with digital music is the entire presentation of a record. That's not to say things are worse now because we've gained stuff in return (eg music has never been so widely available as it is now). But album artwork (not just the front covers) did actually matter to a great many people.
- srean 9y ago... and the liner notes.
- samastur 9y agoWe did but at least I, personally, have never bought or not bought a record because of its cover.
- thaumasiotes 9y agohttps://books.google.com/books?id=o0sti65JskUC&pg=PA64&lpg=PA64&dq=foxtrot+what%27s+with+all+the+reverb&source=bl&ots=R6HzsNBLZE&sig=kTZtHS8AP-nA1oA1O_i-uxDithM&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwja28uw0f_aAhUmrlQKHbtbCOwQ6AEIWDAO#v=onepage&q=foxtrot%20what's%20with%20all%20the%20reverb&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=o0sti65JskUC&pg=PA64&lpg=P...
- laumars 9y agoMaybe not exclusively because of the cover but I'd be lying if I said it's never influenced me to buy a record I was otherwise undecided about.
- Griffinsauce 9y agoYou can't honestly know what subconscious effects seeing that cover had. To say it had zero effect is pretty disingenuous when you take into account what we know about human decision making and a massive global ad industry.
- samastur 8y agoOf course I can say that for myself. Every record I ever bought was because I knew at least some of the music on it beforehand and went to shop to get it. Cover could influence how I felt about the whole package afterwards, but since I never not bought something because how it looked, I can be pretty certain that it didn't matter for my purchases. I agree that it would be different if my music discovery came from browsing records in music stores where look could influence me, but that is not how I ever went about it.
- KozmoNau7 9y agoIt's an absolutely fantastic cover for a fantastic album. To me, it does play a significant role, it gives you an image of the wheezing sad existence of Aqualung, and the raw style of the painting adds significantly to the impression it makes.