Or in this case a CD. Caveat emptor -- never, ever consider buying a CD that on its cover pictures a bearded youngish man sitting on a porch, straight backed chair tipped back, smiling goofily. Even more if he has a guitar in his hands. Let me translate the meaning of this picture for you; it says, "Hi, there, I'm hopelessly derivative of some style whose apex was reached by a group like the Kingston Trio twenty years before I was born, but I've discovered how to love life in all its complexities (I even love my romantic pain!) and sing about it with a summer deluge (which, by the way, I'm watching from this front porch we've specially rented for this picture) of rhyming cliches."
There, my public service announcement of the day.
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Do you have any recommendations for album covers that scream "buy me"?
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