covers

You can't blame an artist for putting their heart and soul out there and doing their best. But you can totally laugh at weird and awkward album covers that use extremely tacky imagery or have become a straight up double entendre over time. There's no way of knowing if your band name is gonna become a synonym for a sex act, but hey, it happens.

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.

Please judge all of these books by their covers, it's more fun that way. While we're not exactly sure what's in some of these, we can be pretty sure the Furby Trainer's Guide or Understanding Horse Psychology are things that we don't exactly see as page-turners. For more funny books, here are some weird and specific how-to books.

A French Bookstore is getting noticed on Instagram for their creative playfulness with book covers. Some are pretty striking. We're pretty big fans of coincidences and creative uses of stuff, and these pics are no exception.

Because everything is better with dogs.