Re: FLUXLIST: Recent posts

[Lord Hasenpfeffer]

> Of course cover art is just a contingent aspect of music, but it's beloved.
> It has been a source of richness. Is it necessary? Of course not. Does its
> belovedness matter? It ought to--
>
> And virtual imagery doesn't show the marks of time. Nothing like cardboard
> scuffed around the edges and unevenly faded for beauty--
>
> Mortality is for me a key component of the beautiful. 

I agree with you 100%.  It has it's place but it shouldn't be cause to
adversely affect the appreciation of the music underlying it.  That's just
a side-effect of having grown up in a time where everybody else has does it
something so frequently that for most it has become unthinkable to ever go
against that norm.  Music with no accompanying artwork.  Hmmm...
Didn't The Beatles attempt that once?

Myke