In which I confess my fetish... →[More:]... for album cover art.

But even when it comes included with the music files, it's usually easy to find - or, despite my pitifully weak 'Shop-Fu, to produce - something more to my taste.

Latest example: this Mravinsky recording of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 10.

Look at that album art. Then compare it to this early Google image seach result for "Shostakovich 1953" [the year the 10th was written].

Which of those two images would you say better evokes the spirit of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 10?

Of course, in the digital age, an "album" is an artistic concept - not a physical object. So I suppose I'm showing my age to think of these images as "what the music comes in".