Albums you bought because of the Cover Art / Liner Notes
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I had a friend who did that all the time at the used record stores in the mid-80s. I would listen to all of it and then just tape the good stuff. This was at a time when much of the cool 70s stuff that we found was out of print and a lot of the good 80s stuff was hard to come by in the small town where I grew up. There was a lot of good and bad stuff in that lot. I still listen to a good bit of it.
Some examples:
The Monks (70s) - Suspended Animation
Sparks - Indiscreet
Anthrax - Among the Living
Alien Sex Fiend - Who's Been Sleeping in My Brain?
Guillotine (cool Virgin Records 10" sampler with X-Ray Spex, Roky Erickson, XTC and some bands that no one has ever heard of).
I think the coolest record I ever bought for the cover was The Who's Live at Leeds.
Some examples:
The Monks (70s) - Suspended Animation
Sparks - Indiscreet
Anthrax - Among the Living
Alien Sex Fiend - Who's Been Sleeping in My Brain?
Guillotine (cool Virgin Records 10" sampler with X-Ray Spex, Roky Erickson, XTC and some bands that no one has ever heard of).
I think the coolest record I ever bought for the cover was The Who's Live at Leeds.
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Man, that is a TERRIFIC album! I got it when it came out, because I happen to be a big west African music fan, but I always thought that cover was brilliant.will the moor wrote:
I used to have a roommate who bought albums based on the art all the time. He'd just walk into a record store and peruse the albums until he found some art that he liked. Sometimes he would do it based in genre, but oftentimes not. It was amazing how much cool stuff he found that way.
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Which albums did I buy 'cause of the cover art? How 'bout these:
Top: Spark's classic Propaganda album.
Bottom: Utopia -- Oops! Wrong Planet
Top: Spark's classic Propaganda album.
Bottom: Utopia -- Oops! Wrong Planet
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Back in my youth, we went to the mall, and perused albums. Two things often determined if we bought an unfamiliar artist's work. Cover art and whether we had enough money.
Honestly, these days I don't really care about cover art as much as the songs. Though, I will admit a good cover can round out the package quite nicely.
Honestly, these days I don't really care about cover art as much as the songs. Though, I will admit a good cover can round out the package quite nicely.
Guilty as charged....
The above gal also wrote and sang most of the Carrie Nation's songs in "Beyond the Valley Of the Dolls" (the greatest movie ever)...
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I've only bought a album once based on cover art, and I'm glad i did. The album was called "An Education in Rebeliion" by the Union Underground. Unfortunatly it was one of that albums that was underrated and it was the bands first and only album. Check it out if yer into hard rock.
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