Enjoy The Experience: Homemade Records 1958-1992
A private-press LP at the thrift store is a curio, a personal find, but the same LP featured in a coffee-table book is a collector’s item. Whatever you might have made of the original, it wasn’t—by definition—salable. After being included in this stylish art book though, that scarcity becomes value. And it’s unmistakable that many of the album covers inEnjoy the Experiencehave the novelty, mystery, and visual apeal that translate into consumer desirability. Indeed, that desirability underliesmuch of the book’s raison d’être. Like galleries or fine-art collectors, the editors ofEnjoy the Experience, have, in cataloguing their passion, marketed it as well. […] The album art in this volume stretches the genre because we haven’t seen it before. But once we have, the real surprise may be how comfortably it fits inside. —Damon Krukowski