Back in the olden days, people bought music on plastic disks, called CDs. And each disk came with artwork dedicated to the collection of music. This was called 'album art' - the word 'album' derived from a previous music format, the record, that was popular back in the 1800's or something.
Anyway, for the handful of album art lovers still left on earth, check out Sleevage. A blog devoted to album art.
One of my all-time favorite album covers (even though I can't stand the band) is pictured above. In all of it's cool creepiness.
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I believe album art traces back to brandwise chanting monks in the Middle Ages who embellished songsheets longhand, before longplaying (LP)records and mass produced jackets edged them out. Picture's still worth a thousand for image building. Especially when no one gets your music.
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