By the mid nineties most albums were released on compact disk instead of vinyl records this reduced the size of the artwork to about a quarter of size it was before but this did not reduce the relevance of the album cover. I am going to look at the example i looked at last to start with On a story tellers night.
In 2005 On a story tellers night was re-released for a special 20th anniversary addition and the artwork was just as important as ever, fans would of being deeply upset if the album had being re-released without the classic tavern scene. The artwork was changed slightly by a boarder and a banner with the title but apart from that it remains the same as the art work is just as important as the classic tracks from the album that made it famous.
(wiki refference) A good example of a transfere from vinyl to cd is the Beatles album Sergent peppers lonely heart club, the album art is one of the most influential of all time designed by Peter Blake and Jann Haworth and one of if not thee most expensive of all time costing £2, 868, the equivalent of £38, 823 today. The album features a collage of famous actors, actresses writers and musicains. The original was a gatefold sleeve that had the bigger than jesus band on a yellow background. They actually wanted to give away pieces of merchandise with the album such as badges pencils ect but they had to settle with cardboard cutouts. The transfere to cd was done in a nice carboard box equally as well thought out as the original gatefold and this will give the fans who already own the album another reason to buy other than cd quality.
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