Caring about album covers

>caring about album covers

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The cover is part of the presentation as a whole and should be judged accordingly.

A good album cover unironically makes the music sound better

The album cover is the first thing you're exposed to about an album. If it's shit, the artists haven't put any effort into making a decent impression. Why should I care if they don't care? You wouldn't hire someone who shows up to a job interview wearing jeans and a t-shirt, would you?

Wrong pic op

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It's a part of the product, you absolute brainlet!

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an album cover is the first impression, if it's not eye-catching and/or not a good representation of the music of the album, then the artist has failed to a degree

ahh so it's not about the actual content of the music, got it

album covers give context with how you'll listen to the album, so of course they matter

this is why modern metal sucks

except it has literally nothing to do with the music

There's nothing wrong with appreciating good cover art.

Letting it affect your perception of the music is asinine though.

I only originally listened to this album because I liked the cover. The album itself is great

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Only insofar as we're easily impressionable.
Although jazz and classical records do a good job of either only showing the artist or an artwork which usually doesn't seem to affect the music near as much it does in popular music.

if an album cover is ugly I can't put it on my chart!

it's literally a part of the whole aesthetic you faggot.

I only listen to albums with good looking covers and then I convince myself the music is better than it actually is because I like the cover so much

Sure it does, it's the first thing you notice about an album, it's what brings you towards listening to an album (if it's your first time stumbling upon said album), it's supposed to serve as a visual representation of the album.
Again, not the most important element, the music is what essentially makes the album, but if you ever went crate-digging and knew nothing about the music in that certain crate, the album cover might help in picking out what you were going to buy.
Taking a chance on an album just based on the cover is not always a bad thing, sometimes you fuck up, sometimes you don't, not everything you buy or decide to stream is essentially worth your time/money, but fuck it, it's one of the many methods we discover music.

Anybody in possession of all their mental faculties will make associations of imagery with music. That association means there will typically be a need to visually represent the music when delivered in a physical medium.

>caring about how good the songs are

Fucking hate this.