Unlike some I don’t miss the crackles or the continuous playing. What I miss the most are the album covers.
People had fun with album covers!
You only have to look at The Monty Python Instant Record Collection. This folded out to form a cardboard box made to look like a stack of records.
Then there are Alice Cooper albums. Amongst many interesting covers is the The Schools Out album that not only came with some paper pants but the cover also folded out to look like a school desk.
Another was the Billion Dollar note that came with the Billion Dollar Babies album.
And who can forget the floppy disc of New Order's Blue Monday…
I am sure everyone of a certain age can point to an interesting album cover that just could not work in todays world of CDs, DVDs and downloads.
But times change.
The creativity that went into these strange and interesting covers probably now manifests itself on artist’s websites or their blogs or their twitter pages, think of it as the law of conservation of creativity.
