Books and covers, the old saying. Now, I'm not that sure what goes into book covers and who has creative control. Because control is a big issue and I wouldn't be surprised if some book covers are horrible as a result of a marketing guy saying "It should look like this." Maybe I'm wrong, though book covers aren't attention grabbers for me. Plus, books are a certain sort of investment for me. I wont pick up any random author, I'll find things out, check out views and reviews first before I try.
But music, music is a very different thing. I do like the fun of picking up CDs, never having heard of the band and being able to gauge what it will be like based only on the packaging. Now, this is a lot easier with music, if you get into music a lot there are lots of tell tale signs. The label, the year, the name of the band and album, the font/logo, song titles, any pictures of the band and of course the cover art.
And when it comes down to cover art, I'll take a nice painted art any day. Screw this all made in photoshop stuff. Yeah ok a lot of album art I really like is just old paintings (specially Romantic era stuff) with a band logo and a title slapped over the top. That aside, there is a wealth of great art out there. Classic Yes and Iron Maiden covers, the early Death albums, things like that.
Of course my taste in music probably influences my taste in album art. Black and white photo of some ruined northern European landscape, awesome. Folksy, lo-fi scribble art, oh god it must burn! Maybe its a really bad thing, but I will continue to judge albums by their cover. There are great albums I like with bad artwork, but in those cases, I'm going to have heard of the band/album before hand, rather than something I'm picking up a random.
This hasn't really turned out to be my thoughts on album art like I expect. Oh well, more distracted by good music.
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