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Post by fabtastique on May 12, 2015 10:10:56 GMT -5
I say album which probably dates me (47 shortly) but it appears that with the demise of record stores, artwork and packaging seems less important now.
Looking back only 5 or so years it seems like people spent far more money on photography, packaging for records and CDs - an enticement to buy... Linda's last good album cover was Hummin' To Myself (2004) and before that Western Wall (1999). Streisand's What Matters Most features a photo she took herself, amateur and uninspiring for such a lovely album.
I miss gatefold packaging, glossy album covers, liner notes and good quality photos.......
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2015 11:59:57 GMT -5
I would go further back to the advent of CDs. Just the size difference of the packaging led to increased laziness and then neglect of cover art. I remember well poring over album covers and liner notes (remember them?) along with packaging and surprises within.
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Post by philly on May 12, 2015 12:52:52 GMT -5
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Post by Pete on May 13, 2015 15:09:51 GMT -5
I buy the physical copy of an album, downloading the songs just isn't for me. I like to have the CD album and look forward to seeing the artwork too.
I do think in general people don't care anymore what the artwork looks like.
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Post by erik on May 13, 2015 17:38:43 GMT -5
Quote by Damien:
The unfortunate thing is that this particular generation of young record buyers today is the first one, to my knowledge, never to have grown up knowing what an actual album and an actual album cover look like, so they've really been conditioned not to care about such arcane things anymore. I am willing to wager that, if you showed them, say, the cover of Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, they might give you a WTF look.
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Post by Pete on May 14, 2015 3:59:17 GMT -5
Erik - Yes I think you're right there. I guess it's not a fault as such but rather just what people (the generation) are used to.
I was born in '84 and other than a cassette by The Bangles and a copied cassette of ABBA that my Granddad let me have I didn't get into buying music until the early 90's and although I do remember LP's they were not as popular as CD's or cassette's. So I was never that familiar with playing LP's other than a few one of my cousin's had. I actually became fasinated with CD's and the artwork (basically just everything about them) and enjoyed going to buy them and if it was a new album coming out remember that feeling of walking (sometimes running) over toward the shelf in the store and picking the CD up and reading what the track listing was. That excitement has gone as the internet has all that information now.
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Post by fabtastique on May 14, 2015 8:28:26 GMT -5
When CDs first came out, for a number of years, vinyl was still issued. I did see an effort to make CDs more visually appealing for a while, the card CD cases, liner notes were evident for a while but downloading has killed packaging period.
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Post by erik on May 14, 2015 9:42:29 GMT -5
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Not only that, it's the general aesthetics of both the album and the album cover. If you look at the cover of the Eagles' Desperado, it looks real, it's as if the four of them stepped out of the Old West itself (or a Sam Peckinpah re-creation of it as such). For all that Internet and downloading have done for music, however, a lot of what was so important to the totality of popular music as four to five previous generations have known it is all but gone...possibly forever (IMHO).
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