I just bought a record just going by the cover art.

And I think it's the best album cover ever◊. Possibly the best band name ever, too.

Also, when I say 'record', I do mean I bought a vinyl record. The music is quite enjoyable, too, but nothing very special - it's country-rock, which is definitely my genre, but most of the songs are a bit too mellow for my taste.

edited 12th Apr '12 11:09:31 AM by MidnightRambler

I must get this album.

And I've done this before myself. Usually worked◊ out pretty◊ good for me◊.

I once bought a used Pop Will Eat Itself vinyl just because of the cover.

And a Harry Chapin album because I knew someone online who had used that specific picture of Harry◊ as his avatar for years.

Cover art is important to me because once I've seen the cover, the artwork becomes inextricably entwined with the music, so that the music "sounds" like the album cover.

So yeah, I've done this a couple of times.

Edited the OP. The link now points at a better image (the leftmost guy's whip isn't cropped out, and the resolution is epic).

I keep forgetting the fact that you were (are?) on truth and beauty bombs too.

There's two records I can say I bought entirely for the cover art: Animal Rites by Jellyfish Kiss and Accordion In Hi-Fi by Jo Ann Castle. Both were worth a listen - noisy lo-fi psychedelia and surprisingly catchy, fun-to-listen-to accordion instrumentals, respectively.

Was. I left around 2008.

I bought my first Iced Earth album based on the cover art◊, and holy crap was I blown away by how good they are. They're like some unholy offspring of Iron Maiden and Metallica, in the best sense of the term.

I really loved this art, ended up buying it, it got me into D'n'B.◊

Wow, different strokes I guess. Understandable considering I really dislike Goldie.

WTF!

The mixtape has like 2 tracks by him, and it's pretty much a laundry list of all the essential D'n'B tunes up to the point he made it.

And do you dislike all his stuff, or just his later stuff?

'Cause his earlier stuff was.... Something else.

Huh?

edited 13th Apr '12 5:49:41 AM by inane242

The cover was strange.

I used to have an vie of it.

But yeah, he's not a very good DJ, but it's really perfect track selection.

edited 13th Apr '12 4:11:21 PM by inane242

Free Beer is also a top tier name for a band.

No band name can possibly be better than We Butter The Bread With Butter.

Too bad that band sucks despite the name. It sounds exactly like the shittiest fraction of the bands whose name antics are parodied in theirs.

I always thought they were So Bad, It's Good.

Fixed.

How could you think that's a bad name?

It's like on of the best parody metal names ever!!!

Not really. It's a parody of Deathcore bands with commands for names like Bring Me the Horizon, See You Next Tuesday, ect.

Speaking of which, I found There is a Hell, Believe me I've Seen it, There is a Heaven Let's Keep it a Secret to be a surprisingly good album.

edited 13th Apr '12 7:34:29 PM by inane242

*shrug* I've seen a lot of indie bands that pick names like that in total seriousness.

Funny, I was utterly unaware of this group. Funnier, that my band, when new and inept, jokingly considered naming themselves that. Also Live Sex. And Live Sex Free Beer.

I can imagine Live Sex would be popular among the nymphomaniacs.

It's actually a shout-out to the docudrama Rated X.

Still, true.

edited 13th Apr '12 7:56:20 PM by JHM