How does the album's cover art influence you, if at all, /mu/?

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>>74555753
What did they mean by this?

It's sets the mood before you listen to it. It gives you a basic gist of what will it be like without you listening.

I'll link the sound of a song to the cover art, so a good cover is important for me.

I feel it ought to communicate the mood of the album. Biggest example I can think of this is Americ anFootball, where it communicates the mood really well, but in a similar vein you have What Burns Never Returns where I expected something a lot softer and got something I didn't expect at all, with more of an air of weirdness and everything being slightly off than of bittersweetness - that said, the cover does represent that a fair amount.

I'm more likely to take an interest in it and give it a listen if I like the album cover. When I browse sharethreads I browse by the covers first and then go through the genres and descriptions.

>>74555753
generally i associate the album art with the music and i like the art if i like the music. the only album that had cover art that perfectly captured what's inside is Grim's "Folk Music" the picture of the fucked up man on the cover staring at you coupled with the misleading title is probably one of the coolest things ever.

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>album's cover is misleading as fuck
love that shit

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i'm more apt to listen to albums if they have a visually pleasing cover

I browse album collages and only listen to stuff that catches my eye.

Senses affect other senses; this is common knowledge. Visuals affect how you interpret what you hear. Imagine if scrambled eggs were purple. Wouldn't that just be fucking gross? They're still just normal scrambled eggs but you probably wouldn't want to eat them because the presentation is so bad that it's off-putting and will likely make the eggs taste bad if you tried to eat it, despite the fact that food coloring doesn't affect taste.
Same thing with albums. Imagine if Loveless had an album cover that was a picture of 3 guys with spiky frosted tips and Guy Fieri type sunglasses, one of whom is angrily strumming power chords into a guitar and screaming into a mic, one is playing bass and the other is drumming in the background. And they're all wearing wife-beaters. And the cover says "My Bloody Valentine - Loveless" in bright rainbow comic sans.

No matter how good the music is, that fucking disgusting album cover is going to ruin it. And that's fine.

To make a much longer explanation shorter, yes, cover art influences everything. In fact, I'd go as far as to say the appeal of an album cover is 1/3 music, 1/3 imagery and 1/3 marketing.