One of the things that I miss about the "old schoo

One of the things that I miss about the "old school" days of Vinyl albums are the album covers.

Oh, you still have cool artwork and interesting designs, but you no longer have that big 12 inch plus cover that could serve as a mini-poster of your favorite artist. It was even more of a treat when the artist produced a double album, because you would then have four sides of cover work.

Now I admit that it's great not having to dedicate large amounts of space to housing an album collection. But, I tend to feel about albums like I feel about having a library of books. There's something that seems right about looking at a bookshelf and seeing those books lined up on the shelf, just like there was something that felt good about seeing your array of albums lined up nice and neat, or even scattered about.

Ultimately, I guess you can argue that it's really about the music, and being able to listen to what you want to quickly and efficiently, and the current formats certainly deliver on that.

And I don't suppose too many people bought albums just based on the cover...unless it was some of those Ohio Players albums covers (you can figure that out for yourself).

My favorite group then and now is The Jackson Five / The Jacksons. When I was growing up, we didn't have much money, and early on, the only records I was able