At 06:16 PM 4/9/2002 -0400, you wrote:
quoted 5 lines I'm looking to the cover for enjoyment.>I'm looking to the cover for enjoyment.
>
>I only reason I buy the actual product is for the album art. Album art
>is a medium all it's own. Remember the hubbub artists brought up when
>cds came out? "There isn't enough room to do proper cover art!"
I usually purchase cd's or records to support the artist, not for cover
art, but it is a nice bonus. Granted, most of the cover art prior to 1970
was pretty crap...
quoted 2 lines If you think that the album art is a footnote to the artists work, I>If you think that the album art is a footnote to the artists work, I
>think you are cheating yourself.
So, to you, the music is free, but the 5x5 piece of colored paper is work
15 dollars?
quoted 2 lines I like challenging/unique/weird/minimal/overly-complex artwork on my>I like challenging/unique/weird/minimal/overly-complex artwork on my
>cds.
I like unique and challenging artwork too. I don't like to not know what
I'm listening to, though.
quoted 2 lines What I do dislike is oversimplified cover with no liner notes or>What I do dislike is oversimplified cover with no liner notes or
>bonus writings/pictures/etc...
It's sort of a gyp, isn't it? You paid all this money and all you get is a
piece of cardboard with some scribbles on it. Sure, you can break out the
microscope to find out that those scribbles are actually the track titles
as one long line in 1/2 point font verdana, but are you gonna do that every
time you want to read the track titles?
Or you spent all this money on a compilation that has some nifty artwork,
only to take it home and realize that you have to wrack your brains and get
your eyes all screwed up in order to find out what artists your listening
to. "Let's see, this is track, uhh, 5, well, uhh, let's count out, 1, 2,
3, 4, 5, ok, five, now I gotta follow this across, oh there's some colors
in... ah!! these arrows made me lose my place!"
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