by psyXonova » Tue Nov 08, 2005 3:36 am
Album Arts are not useless at all. Lets not forget that they are also art, although not music. I can remember my self, not long ago, when i was going for my weekly visit in the record store that i was almost always picking which albums to preview by their cover. Offcourse, if a knew an artist and liked him/her, i would always listen to his/her CDs even if i didn't like the album art, but nevetheless it was the album cover that was making the first impression back at those days.
Ofcourse today, a lot of ppl (including me) dont do that anymore. Today, i am 2 clicks away from previewing and/or acquiring almost any song so i dont bother with Album covers so much. But when do you feel better? When you sit relaxed in your couch to listen to your favorite cd, and at the same time you actually hold the CD case and look at its cover and inlays or when you have no other optical reference for what you are listening besides its filename???
Album Arts are not useless at all. Lets not forget that they are also [b]art[/b], although not music. I can remember my self, not long ago, when i was going for my weekly visit in the record store that i was almost always picking which albums to preview by their cover. Offcourse, if a knew an artist and liked him/her, i would always listen to his/her CDs even if i didn't like the album art, but nevetheless it was the album cover that was making the first impression back at those days.
Ofcourse today, a lot of ppl (including me) dont do that anymore. Today, i am 2 clicks away from previewing and/or acquiring almost any song so i dont bother with Album covers so much. But when do you feel better? When you sit relaxed in your couch to listen to your favorite cd, and at the same time you actually hold the CD case and look at its cover and inlays or when you have no other optical reference for what you are listening besides its filename???