27 Rejected Versions of Famous Album Covers

Back when people still paid for music, album covers were one of the few places a musician could express themselves without having to rhyme. While we love to point out the baffling failures, there were also some album covers that kicked so much ass that they became as iconic as the music they were wrapped around.

We asked you to show us what some of those covers might have looked like before the "suits" with "good sense" had their way. The winner is below, but first the runners up ...