Why I judge albums by their covers

It's not big or clever, and it made me a Pink Floyd fan, but I still buy albums on the strength of their artworkThe peasants are doing what peasants do - lighting candles for the Devil, bringing a basket of light into the day, filling the well after the calf has drowned. A woman in a red dress puts a blue cloak on her husband, signifying cuckoldry. This is Pieter Bruegel the Elder's Netherlandish Proverbs, sometimes known as The Blue Cloak from one of its most haunting details, painted in 1559 a...

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