Who doesn't love a little bad art from time to time?

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A little while ago I put a bunch of Wu-Tang (both group and solo) albums on my computer. 21 of them, in fact. I inherited some mild OCD from my mom, and as anyone who has seen my iTunes can attest to, it manifests itself in weird ways.

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It's amazing how times change. What would be considered absolutely unacceptable 40 years ago is the norm now. Sometimes I wonder what people will find completely acceptable 40 years from now. Yikes!

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Three decades have passed since he worked with them, but Storm Thorgerson wants to apologise to AC/DC.

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To a generation of music fans, he was the "face" of the 1990s: a naked baby in a swimming pool, reaching towards a dollar bill on the end of a fish hook.

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Newsday calls it the "50 Worst Album Covers", but I'd call it the "50 Most Square Album Covers". Good for a chuckle or two.

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Part two, fans, in which those other worst album covers are made to look almost respectable.

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Some really horrible stuff to cap off your weekend.

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Food hackers at Obacchi Jacket Lunch Box cut and arrange ordinary bento lunch box ingredients to recreate famous album covers.

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The P-Fork guys do a great job curating the uber-schmalzy, craptastic, lame-o-rific, and magnifipoopy

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The month of December inspires so much retrospective thinking about the stuff we're most likely to remember that it's easy to forget that there's stuff we'd like to forget. Like bad album covers.

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Do you agree with those on this list?

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For anyone who spends time organizing their album art in iTunes, this is a must-must-see.

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Most of us buy records for the music, but an album's cover imagery can also play a role that can't be overlooked.

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