Album cover art may be a dying medium, but we still recall the covers that became classics. Digital artist Steven Lear, who goes by WhyTheLongPlayFace online, uses the album covers we know best in his pop culture mashups. They are more than just mashups, though, as many of them are puns connecting the cover/title/musical act with some other piece of pop culture. Anyone who has ever looked into long play albums recognizes the image above, even after Lear turned a prism into the Death Star.
Because not all classic album covers are so instantly recognizable by everyone, Moss and Fog celebrated Star Wars Day by posting a gallery of Lear's Star Wars mashups alongside the original album cover art, so you can see how far he's taken the concept... to be exact, he's taken them into a galaxy far, far away. See more of Lear's album cover mashups (they're not all Star Wars) at Instagram.
