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Why is album art work important and is album art still as important today?

 Album art work. For some its as important as the music others don't give it a second thought other than to tell the albums apart while browsing through the masses of cds in shops. A great album cover can make your album stand out from many in todays superstores, whether its from an amazing piece of art or pure shock value.
But is album art as relevent today as it were in the 70s and 80s with the world going digital, huge spreads from classic vinal records such as pink floyds the wall are a thing of the past now mp3 downloads are faster, cheaper and easier to get hold of. So why do we still need album art work when on average its shown at around a square inch on somebodies ipod?
I will analyse album packaging from the 1960s to the preasent day and come up with a conclution to whether or not album art is relevent today and why it was so important in the past 50 years.

60s