Steely Dan – Can’t Buy A Thrill album art
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From Wikipedia:
Can’t Buy a Thrill is the debut studio album by American rock band Steely Dan, released in November 1972, by ABC Records. It was written by band members Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, and recorded in August 1972 at the Village Recorder in Los Angeles with producer Gary Katz. The album is one of Steely Dan’s most stylistically eclectic, encompassing the sounds of soft rock, folk rock, jazz rock and pop, alongside philosophical, elliptical lyrics. […]
The title of the album is a reference to the opening line of the Bob Dylan song “It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry”. The album cover features a photomontage by Robert Lockart. It includes images of muscle-men and a line of prostitutes […] waiting for clients, which was chosen because of its relevance to the album title.
The album contains some of the group's best known hits including “Do It Again”, “Dirty Work”, and “Reelin’ In the Years”.
While the band logo is custom lettering, Lockart used a font for the title: it’s Roger Excoffon’s Mistral. The liner notes one the back are credited to Tristan Fabriani – a pseudonym for Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, They are set in Trump-Mediäval featuring its italic with some swash alternates and terminal forms.
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