Records and Art

There is something about this website of record labels that I find really beautiful.  It's part nostalgia, but it's also part of the creativity that used to go into different elements of the music industry. They don't seem to exist anymore.  First it was the album cover that vanished, then the liner notes. Now it's the physical artifact altogether. 

Records

 

I wonder if my son will ever actively listen to an album. Will he lay on his bed, reading the lyrics or liner notes and do nothing else. Listening to the music is the main activity, not just acting as a pre-selected soundtrack in the background on a set of white earbuds.

Pope Comics Issue #1

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There have been a lot of dumb, bad, unreadable comic books over time. I've personally bought many of them. One-shots or new series that had good covers and seemed interesting to my 11 year old mind. Today I found this on the Covered blog and it baffles me. Marvel Comics Group made a Pope John Paul II comic book? This is either full of priestly Nazi fighting or a disturbing mess.