Was this ever actually done? Wouldn't they just enlarge the cover photographically instead. I've wondered about this ever since I saw the movie way back when.
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Yes, as odd as it sounds, this was a very real thing. You used to see covers like those in the movie, displayed outside shops like Tower Records.
shareAbsolutely, it was done.
I actually owned a record cover created for display for Tower Records in San Francisco back in the day, in fact as late as 1992. It was huge and constructed of wood and hand painted.
I think now they are enlarged photographically...but there are not too many record stores anymore.
I wonder if they did that because a lot of covers didn't stand up to being enlarged photographically.
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A friend of mine did that part time when he was in college back in the late 80's. So, yeah, it was really done.
shareI wonder if they did that because a lot of covers didn't stand up to being enlarged photographically.I'm sure that's part of it but also to reproduce such a photograph would have probably been very expensive and most especially would not have stood up to the elements (weather) like a painted sign of an album cover. A lot of record stores also did this at the time to make themselves distinct from other places so they would want artwork that was just theirs. share
Computers are taking the place of everything, obviously. It's unfortunate.
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The stores also found these covers to be a good investment. Sometimes they would sell them at auctions. And, strangely enough, would make more money than the albums themselves.
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Tower Records had a full scale art department for this, and it wasn't pros working there, anyone off the street who considered themselves an artist could get a job there. It was upstairs in the Tower records I worked at in the late 80s and my brother worked in the art department.
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