Misleading CD Covers!

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Misleading CD Covers!

Postby Puguni » Tue Oct 25, 2005 5:13 pm

Has anyone looked at a CD from the cover and avoided it based off of it? Has anyone listened to the music that has a CD cover that you would normally avoid? Has anyone liked the music that has a misleading CD cover?

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Postby Felix » Tue Oct 25, 2005 5:31 pm

Mm....I've done the second thing. I bought a CD by the Gorillaz because the anime-like cover art looked cool......not so good.
Oh and obviously I have avoided secular bands with...females on the cover. *twitch*
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Postby inkjet1987 » Tue Oct 25, 2005 5:56 pm

Felix wrote:Oh and obviously I have avoided secular bands with...females on the cover. *twitch*


You don't like females?
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Postby Felix » Tue Oct 25, 2005 6:14 pm

inky wrote:You don't like females?

Oh I didn't mean that. I'm just talking about bands that display women on their covers in a sexual way. Not many, but I just mean that I avoid those bands for obvious reasons. <.<;
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Postby Locke » Tue Oct 25, 2005 6:22 pm

i dont really get missleaded when looking for cds cause I know most of the bands out there (read AP Magazine kiddys!).

Heh, Eisleys cover had the entire band...
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Postby inkjet1987 » Tue Oct 25, 2005 10:17 pm

[quote="Felix"]Oh I didn't mean that. I'm just talking about bands that display women on their covers in a sexual way. Not many, but I just mean that I avoid those bands for obvious reasons. <.<]

Oh ok, gotcha. That makes sense.
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Postby Ingemar » Tue Oct 25, 2005 10:33 pm

The cover of Seal's second eponymous album has a picture of him nude (albeit strategically covering himself up with his legs). However, the songs themselves are not exactly sexual.
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Postby Knives » Sun Oct 30, 2005 10:32 am

Puguni wrote:Has anyone looked at a CD from the cover and avoided it based off of it? Has anyone listened to the music that has a CD cover that you would normally avoid? Has anyone liked the music that has a misleading CD cover?

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I have avoided a lot of CDs because of a certain label on them. If a CD looks really evil then I probably will be much more wary of the cd because of it. If there is something sexual on the cd then I probably wont buy it or borrow it or whatever.
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Postby Kaligraphic » Sun Oct 30, 2005 10:50 am

I avoid buying "stamped" CDs that are blue-green (or similar) on the bottom. Mostly because they're likely to actually be CDRs. Does that count?
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Postby Michael » Sun Oct 30, 2005 1:03 pm

The Red Hot Chili Peppers "By the Way" album cover is rather . . . . . . risque, but that's my favorite RHCP album ever.
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Postby Knives » Sun Oct 30, 2005 1:11 pm

Yah, one of the chili peppers cd covers has some near frontal nudity.
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Postby Michael » Mon Oct 31, 2005 7:28 pm

I think your thinking of "Mother's Milk" which is a pretty raunchy album in and of itself. "By the Way" actually does have a picture of a nude girl on the front, but it's very wierdly drawn and you only see breast nudity.
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Postby Arnobius » Mon Oct 31, 2005 7:44 pm

I usually buy looking for albums by people I know, though I remember way back before they were popular I saw a Metallica album cover with a demon on the record (like I said it was before they were popular) and thought it was a satanic band. Was a few years later my friend told me they weren't (this was back when Master of Puppets came out when I started listening to them)
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Postby Knives » Tue Nov 01, 2005 9:07 am

Michael wrote:I think your thinking of "Mother's Milk" which is a pretty raunchy album in and of itself. "By the Way" actually does have a picture of a nude girl on the front, but it's very wierdly drawn and you only see breast nudity.

Oh, oops.
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Postby Taka » Tue Nov 15, 2005 8:06 am

I have the reverse experience typicaly. I can buy a cd because it has an intresting cover, and be plesantly surprised by the music... But there have defantly been let downs. I generaly buy based on wanting it before hand/having it recomended to me, but not all the time.
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Postby Yojimbo » Wed Nov 16, 2005 6:26 pm

There are large black Parental Warnings on the more "risque" CD's guys.:eyeroll: As far as lyrical content goes anyway.
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Postby Puguni » Wed Nov 16, 2005 6:54 pm

I've seen CD covers that are plenty weird to me without the parental seal; if there was one, I'd just avoid it altogether.
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