[butwhywhyoh]

I suppose then you're a proponent of photographing all famous works of art and displaying them on a webpage somewhere, because if the painting is worth looking at, the medium shouldn't matter at all, right?

I guess going to a museum to view artwork is an incredibly shallow experience for you?

[daveoc64]

Album art etc. is supplementary to the music - I don't need to see it on a square piece of cardboard to "appreciate" it.

An original artwork is just that - best when the original is viewed. A CD, Tape, or Vinyl is in no way "the original".

[blep_]

I'm not that person, but... yes, unironically.

Maybe different people value different things?

[throwaway675309]

This isn't really an accurate analogy because the art is produced with a visual medium in mind.

Whereas music is produced with the transference of auditory information in mind (album art, concerts, and all the physical swag garbage is ancilliary)