y'know i was thinking that the other night. both about the greatness of the AO artwork and the hard-to-read text. having had a good stare at the text on the sleeves though i think they're a lot easier to read than i initally thought. ie. if you look at it in a certain way the details become clear.
whether that works in a dark club when you're trying to locate the exact track you wanna play is another thing tho :)
robin... On 14 Jan 2005, at 15:38, J.T. wrote:
hey alan oldham deserves some serious recognition for the cover art he's been doing for these records too!! beautiful multi-colored comicart-meets-popart. the ones for juan's stuff seem especially great. on the other hand, whoever does the layout/design needs to be drug thru the streets. every record looks identical, which is bad since the text is wicked hard to read on all of them, really looks like some bad indie-rock flyers i see around town. and that's just the a-side, then they mirror the text on the b-side, turning it into retarded klingon. it's so bad, i've even heard a couple people say they have trouble playing the records out because finding particular records/tracks is so hard..
