{"id":729,"date":"2007-07-24T12:58:15","date_gmt":"2007-07-24T16:58:15","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-03-28T10:20:33","modified_gmt":"2010-03-28T10:20:33","slug":"best-foot-forward-album-covers-that-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/best-foot-forward-album-covers-that-made\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Foot Forward: Album Covers That Made You Take the Plunge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/users\/frankenslade\/ZWOL.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"403\" height=\"302\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"image_legend\">Hey, that&#8217;s my old copy!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Last week, I believe it was, <strong>Townsman 2000 Man<\/strong> made mention of an album cover that was so appealing that he couldn&#8217;t resist buying the album, despite the fact that he knew almost nothing about the band. I had a similar experience in high school when I first saw a huge display of Elvis Costello&#8217;s <em>My Aim Is True<\/em> at the old Peeches record store on Roosevelt Boulevard. I bet I wasn&#8217;t alone in taking the plunge on that album. Great cover! In the days of vinyl and 12-inch come-ons for artists&#8217; new works, I&#8217;m sure I took a chance on a couple of albums per year. These days, the old CD cover doesn&#8217;t pull as much weight with my wallet. <em><strong>What album covers made you take a chance on an artist you knew almost nothing about?<\/strong><\/em> <\/p>\n<p>While you&#8217;re pondering this, if we kept track of the ratio of albums sales based on cover art to actual spins of purchased record, would any album have a lower ratio of sales to spins than the classic <strong>Zwol<\/strong> album? My guess is that my personal 1 sale:2 spins for that album is not far off the average among the other 43 people in the world who probably bought that album just for its ridiculous cover.<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to the anticipation with which Oats looks forward to your responses!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, that&#8217;s my old copy! Last week, I believe it was, Townsman 2000 Man made mention of an album cover that was so appealing that he couldn&#8217;t resist buying the album, despite the fact that he knew almost nothing about the band. I had a similar experience in high school when I first saw a <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/best-foot-forward-album-covers-that-made\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[246],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}