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Originally Posted by gmku
This really points to why I think it's hard for there to be any kind of great breakthrough album these days. A release once upon a time included many other cultural attachments. It's fine to be all about the music but focusing only on the music also means those other things lose significance. It's hard to create a huge swelling of fan enthusiasm without those other cultural aspects, because basically and quite simply, those things are a lot of "fun."
They may also be a lot of marketing but you can't deny the fun factor in things like cover artwork, rock fashions, videos, and so on.
Think about the Beatles making music if their music had just been downloaded and we never saw them on TV, or they never made movies, or kids never started copying their hairstyles and clothes, or if they didn't make those revolutionary album covers.
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I think a lot of bands.. let's look at Nine Inch Nails' "year zero", which including all kinds of viral marketing and art and stuff to go along with it. I thought that stuff was interesting and cool but at the end of the day, I mainly focus on the music. To go back to something noisereductions said earlier, yeah, it would suck if every album cover was all white or something, but it wouldn't affect the music in any way.
I really like albums like albums the Residents release that come with stories about songs and full color art books and stuff........
But honestly, it doesn't affect my enjoyment of the music one way or another.