Since music is a primarily auditory experience, many artists don't seem to be too skilled when it comes to developing their image. Low budgets, awkward photoshoots and the swift and crushing passage of time have left many artists of the past in a whirling eddy of unrelatable creepiness that in retrospect, is fun to gawk at. In a similar vein of weird stuff people made, here are strange how-to books.
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By jackjohn (Via Laughing Squid)
An ad campaign for secondhand music store Vinyl Exchange assembled patchwork bodies, Frankenstein-style, out of the detached body parts so often portrayed on album covers.
By jackjohn
A week ago, Reddit reposted the album randomizer game that we reposted from 4chan (reposts are the Internet's way of showing it cares). The folks over in that corner of the web made a few good ones of their own.
And to those of you on FAIL Blog who made excellent album covers of your own and are currently sitting there wondering "Hey! Where the hell are MINE?" Shhhh. It's fine. Don't drink so much coffee. We'll feature those in an upcoming post (and now's the time to make your own if you haven't already).
