Top 10 worst album covers

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Dr.Gee
Dude, you need to get rid of that avtar! It's freaking me out!

No shit. The guy looks just a little bit too content standing behind his band mate ...naked

homophobes!

[ViRaL1]

Does anyone remember this Prince album -

Was that LoveSexy?

Didn't own it but I think I remember it.

[thayne]

Dr.Gee
Dude, you need to get rid of that avtar! It's freaking me out!

No shit. The guy looks just a little bit too content standing behind his band mate ...naked

You gotta laugh just thinking 'bout some guy goin' into the record store and wanting to buy that album ('cause maybe he liked the songs) but how do explain that to the cashier or the people waiting in back of ya

Makes me think something like the scene in Bananas when Woody Allen goes into a store and tries to buy a nudie mag....but is embarrassed about buying it. So he tries to be discreet and picks up a bunch of other mags to make it less obvious...then the cashier holds the nudie mag up in front of everyone around Woody Allen and asks one of the co-workers where the pricetag is for it...and keeps drawing more attention to the mag
While Woody is cringing and freaking out


Does anyone remember this Prince album -

AHHHHHHHH! My eyes! my eye! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

[Capmaster]

That's gonna take a while to get out of my head ...

[thayne]

I don't think I can make the #6 spot by the end of the night... I guess there is always next month! LOL

[thayne]

Ha ha I'm #5 for the week! Look out Capmaster....

[Capmaster]

Ha ha I'm #5 for the week! Look out Capmaster....

The title is all yours. Like I said before, I don't care and can't understand why it's so important to yoda to get on the damn list. It's not like he's gonna win a prize or anything :P

[ViRaL1]

Ha ha I'm #5 for the week! Look out Capmaster....

The title is all yours. Like I said before, I don't care and can't understand why it's so important to yoda to get on the damn list. It's not like he's gonna win a prize or anything :P

What's funnier is that the week just started yesterday.

[888888]

well, since I know the label owner, I can state with 99.5% certainty that he didn't pay anyone jack shit (no pun intended) for the photo. You're probably right, although I think scat pron may be a grey area.

pron is legal, "obscenity" is not. I can go into a video store in the US and buy pron over the counter - to get scat, I have to go to some comparatively extreme lengths to find it. I don't know if scat videos are obscene under the law, or if no one has the guts to test it in an above-ground venue by distributing or offering it for sale in an overground manner.

so if we conclude that (by it's omission in the [overground] marketplace) that scat may be too hot to handle (obscene), then you wouldn't be able to copyright them. so this label could use them with impunity.

in reality, it's just another in a loooooooooooong line of informally-appropriated imagery in the metal & hardcore tradition. how much imagery is original, and how much is stolen / recontextualized / sampled / parodied?

"Obscenity" is an issue that has been debated for years (making Larry Flynt famous) and is still very subjective. I have read things like accoring to the government, urine in pornography is obscene but they now have that in major magazines. Same with "ass to mouth" but those are plentiful in video stores. One can order scat videos on the internet from US sources. Also, I am pretty sure there are some states that have XXX video or book stores that carry scat videos.

Cannibal Corpse's covers have pretty violent and offensive drawings on them and they are on a (semi) major label! You can buy a Cannibal Corpse album in any record store (here in NY anyway, maybe not in Utah or someplace like that). So I don't think selling such a "scat-cover" album would be that offensive, as long as it has a sticker on the front to cover most of it during display.

There are websites online that specialize in scat pornography and they have to liscense those images from somewhere. I doubt they steal all their photos and videos. Therefore, if that picture was stolen from a website, the owner of the site should probably know who owns the copyright etc.