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A naked baby swims toward a dollar bill. Next to it, a psychedelic gang of megastars stands in a fantastical portrait. Stacked against a wall leans a one-dimensional school desk.

Album covers like Nirvana’s Nevermind, the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band or Alice Cooper’s School’s Out are iconic. Memorable. Loved.

But in this digital-download-or-bust era of small-spaced mobile living, album covers can no longer afford to sit back, idly taking up space and looking cute.

Once regarded by arbiters of pop culture as the ultimate symbols of musical hipness, album covers are no longer needed to store music.

Thousands of songs stuff weightlessly into cellphones and MP3 players. Boxy old covers are in danger of assuming relic status, tucked away in basements and storage lockers.

But they’re fighting back.

Read the full article at the (Vancouver) Daily News

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