Album art is dead.
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- jtb262
I've been around long enough to see my own six-year-old thread bumped. Feels like some kind of QBN Achievement.
I still moan about this by the way. To cope I've just become one of those hipsters who buy vinyl. Gives me that capitalist, scarcity driven satisfaction of ownership. Also better than CD's because the print is bigger, which helps for my aging eyes.
- Also, there's something about that intermission to flip the record from Side A to Side B!Krassy
- * Slowly raises hand while feeling a mixture of pride and self loathing at the same time.nocomply
- I have to say I don't have any nostalgia for the vinyl era. The sound is better on CDs (no debates, it just a fact) and it's way more convenient and durable.CyBrainX
- For me it's not about quality it's about experience. My ears are shot after years of live performance without ear plugs.jtb26
- Fax_Benson1
I still love digipaks (the cardboard gatefold covers that often have inserts and all the other lovely stuff you used to get with vinyl). Only they're smaller, so easier and cheaper to produce and easier to store.
Trying to get a crappy stapled mini-brochure out from behind those little bumps on a jewel case was one of life's great miseries.
- Bennn0
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talked with a 22 years old, he said he never been to music shows because he dont have specific favorite bands, he just scroll Spotify and listen to songs... from many different bands, he never listen to a whole album ever. His music library is like 2,000 songs from 1,500 different artists, zero full album.
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yep, the face of music is changing a lot since 15 years
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- ernexbcn0
I for one like my albums on iTunes with their proper covers, I think I have a kind of OCD about that actually.
- ohhhhhsnap0
http://pitchfork.com/features/st… ...but for the purpose of this thread
- Gardener0
a darker alternative
http://bargainbinblasphemy.tumbl…
- HAYZ1LLLA0
I keep my itunes pretty tight so artwork is still important to me. Cover flow innit!
- Coverflow was removed in iTunes 11
Album view is good thoughanimatedgif
- Coverflow was removed in iTunes 11
- animatedgif0
"And going back to the statement 'Print is dead'.
Who here doesn't interact at least once a day with printed mediums? From the embossed paper sleeve on your morning coffee, to packaging protecting your latest electronic gadget"...So print is still useful for trash then?
- clearly, that depends on you and you alone... because on a spiritual level, all material posesion are trash...Miguex
- http://static2.fjcdn…Miguex
- ORAZAL0
- dope, too bad is FAKE because PRINT IS DEAD
http://southparkstud…Miguex
- dope, too bad is FAKE because PRINT IS DEAD
- fresnobob0
Album art isn't dead, sorry. Maybe you only listen to mps or some shit now, but thats your bad. Vinyl and tapes are way more popular now that 10 years ago.
FYI, album art has always been a small square except for specialty items. Even when they still sold 45s, they didnt usually come with covers...
- Horp0
Fuck it man, its gone, let it be.
Time was when music was a bunch of holes punched into giant rolls of tough paper on a reel. You dropped them into your pianola and it was like a ghost was tinkling the ivories. The full colour wraps that those cylindrical reels came in were the ultimate format. Exquisitely beautiful etchings and calligraphy brought stunningly realistic evocations right into the parlour. Then wax came along and killed the cylinder format stone dead with its soul-less, completely flat squares of 12" lithographic cardboard. What was worse was that when you put them on the shelf you couldn't even see the pictures anymore, the pictures all got pressed together and you'd be left with a 2mm 'spine' that had 2pt type on you could barely read with a magnifying glass.
- jtb260
Allow me to beat a dead horse.
My interest in bringing up this topic was not to bemoan the fact that we've lost the physical medium - but that album art is now a square picture to represent a track in my playlist.
All the content that used to come packed with the music has been left behind. Lyrics, liner notes, bios, photos. I get that it's all on the internet now but I think there is real value in packaging that all together in a clever and visual way. Nowadays that should be visual.
Album art shouldn't be relegated to an avatar for tracks on my phone.
- pressplay0
*in a hippie voice* it’s not dead man, it just transmuted into another form