Sqwink Album Art Blog

I few months ago, I wrote a post about how Brit-band Hard-Fi were opposed to Album Artwork on their new release. If this wasn’t enough, I recently heard that at least one band is now doing a similar thing (I can’t seem to find out how, if you have any information, please leave a comment). If this carries on - and bands and artists, for some strange reason, stopped having album artwork, the future of iTunes could be in jeopardy!

Imagine the iTunes Store of the future, where Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, is annoyed at albums being sold with no cover art. Instead of having white squares dotted all over the store…he inserts his own image to boost sales. Click here for a full-sized and expanded view of this image.

So, what’s the moral of the story? We need CD artwork to represent the music, pure and simple. So this is my little blog protest to put it as humorously as I can…

I few months ago, I wrote a post about how Brit-band Hard-Fi were opposed to Album Artwork on their new release. If this wasn’t enough, I recently heard that at least one band is now doing a similar thing (I can’t seem to find out how, if you have any information, please leave a comment). If this carries on - and bands and artists, for some strange reason, stopped having album artwork, the future of iTunes could be in jeopardy!

Imagine the iTunes Store of the future, where Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, is annoyed at albums being sold with no cover art. Instead of having white squares dotted all over the store…he inserts his own image to boost sales. Click here for a full-sized and expanded view of this image.

So, what’s the moral of the story? We need CD artwork to represent the music, pure and simple. So this is my little blog protest to put it as humorously as I can…