Have you ever bought an album, simply becuase you liked the cover, and did you grow to like the music?

Posted by: Klyde on 21 April 2018

I've just liked an album posted by Bert, because I like the cat on the cover! I've also added it to my Tidal albums list for audition later. I realised this might be fun to do this, as now rarely buy albums without listening first.

My first album to get this 'treatment' was Vangelis - Albedo 0.39, which became a family favorite, as the first non-classical album in the house. The second was Black Sabbath - Technical Ecstasy, which sadly, but not unexpectedly didn't go down well with my parents!

 

Posted on: 11 May 2018 by Innocent Bystander
Japtimscarlet posted:

In my teens I used to buy albums exclusively on cover art...and when I found an artist I liked...and there were many ...I bought there other albums ( but not on cover art)

Many of these old albums are still in regular play ( I'm sixty now ...all bar a few months) so cannot have been that bad a stratigy

Only old band I really fell out of love with was cheap trick ...

Wow, that was risky! I didn’t dare blow my money without knowing I liked - but certainly the covers very much were what led me to try and thus discover bands.

Posted on: 12 May 2018 by wenger2015
MDS posted:

I can imagine a few of the early Roxy Music albums picked up some addition sales on the basis of the album covers.

Back in the day I bought ‘country life’ purely for the music of course...

Posted on: 12 May 2018 by MDS
wenger2015 posted:
MDS posted:

I can imagine a few of the early Roxy Music albums picked up some addition sales on the basis of the album covers.

Back in the day I bought ‘country life’ purely for the music of course...

Me too, wenger. What else could possibly have attracted young men to this album?

 

Posted on: 12 May 2018 by wenger2015
MDS posted:
wenger2015 posted:
MDS posted:

I can imagine a few of the early Roxy Music albums picked up some addition sales on the basis of the album covers.

Back in the day I bought ‘country life’ purely for the music of course...

Me too, wenger. What else could possibly have attracted young men to this album?

 

Dare I say the bushes.............behind the two ladies..of course ????

Posted on: 20 May 2018 by Olly

Yes, I still really don’t know why a Citroen DS features on this cover though.

Posted on: 20 May 2018 by Olly

Here’s another successful gamble.