You see the same thing with other things like food products. Go in any store and you will find brand name and generic cans of vegetables for example. In my area two such brands are Delmonte and Roundy's. Both labels sell a variety of canned goods. Delmonte's is more expensive (being a brand name) but if you could track the cans back to their points of origin you would probably find their contents came from the same field or near enough. Yet people will often spend the money for the brand name can. Another older example is from a story a college math teacher I had told the class once. When he was younger and tv's used tubes he worked in a plant putting the labels on them. He'd have a cardboard container of tubes and on one he'd put a RCA label and on another a Sony etc (not sure of the actual brand names as its been over 20 yrs) but the point is they were all the same tube but the stickers would identify them as different tubes according to the circuit diagram that the individual TV's and Radios had for the repair man to go by. And books often (or so I understand) sell more by what picture and blurb they present the potential buyer than any other thing.
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Originally Posted by jeffcobb
How many times have you purchased a movie or book (not so much music but the idea is the same) thanks to a bit of well-done cover art, only to find out that the content itself had nothing to do with the illustration on the cover and just plain stunk? In support of this I use the example of Frank Frazetta, one of the greatest fantasy illustrators of our time. He was quoted (well I have video of him saying it) that he rarely if ever actually read the books he made cover art for yet the books with his cover art consistently out-sold other similar titles.
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