This is a RECORD COVER. This writing is the DESIGN upon the record cover.
The DESIGN is to help SELL the record. We hope to draw your attention to
it and encourage you to pick it up. When you have done that maybe you’ll
be persuaded to listen to the music - in this case enhancemen’s 1st album. Then
we want you to BUY it. The idea being that the more of you that buy this
record the more money loftware Records, the manager Frank Krugmann and enhancemen themselves
will make. To the aforementioned this is known as PLEASURE. A good cover
DESIGN is one that attracts more buyers and gives more pleasure. This writing
is trying to pull you in much like an eye-catching picture. It is designed
to get you to READ IT. This is called luring the VICTIM, and you are the
VICTIM. But if you have a free mind you should STOP READING NOW! because
all we are attempting to do is to get you to read on. Yet this is a DOUBLE
BIND because if you indeed stop you’ll be doing what we tell you, and if
you read on you’ll be doing what we’ve wanted all along. And the more you
read on the more you’re falling for this simple device of telling you exactly
how a good commercial design works. They’re TRICKS and this is the worst TRICK
of all since it’s describing the TRICK whilst trying to TRICK you, and if
you’ve read this far then you’re TRICKED but you wouldn’t have known this
unless you’d read this far. At least we’re telling you directly instead of
seducing you with a beautiful or haunting visual that may never tell you.
We’re letting you know that you ought to buy this record because in essence
it’s a PRODUCT and PRODUCTS are to be consumed and you are a consumer and
this is a good PRODUCT. We could have written the band’s name in special
lettering so that it stood out and you’d see it before you’d read any of this
writing and possibly have bought it anyway. What we are really suggesting is
that you are FOOLISH to buy or not buy an album merely as a consequence of
the design on its cover. This is a con because if you agree then you’ll
probably like this writing - which is the cover design - and hence the album
inside. But we’ve just warned you against that. The con is a con. A good cover
design could be considered as one that gets you to buy the record, but that
never actually happens to YOU because YOU know it’s just a design for the cover.
And this is the RECORD COVER.