Record covers been created by prominent artists such as Andy Warhol or Peter Blake. Some even turned the concept of the album cover completely on its head with monumental works such as Pop Goes Art. The printed image of glossy artwork within the machinery preparing itself to unlease those dazziling sci-fi- soundtracks suddenly became very dynamic when picture discs first used as German propaganda turned hypnotically to captivate a whole new generation.Packaging records in this way was still something of a promotional stunt.Quirky novelty limited editions stictly for the geeks who saw such merchandise as a return visit to engage those thrusters and high tail those twisters through multiple grids to some fantasy world where ray guns and intergalactic battles are common place.Or so one would have you believe.Such items are in fact highly collectable and the geek would indeed inherit the universe.But it was again with pop goes art who took the medium into uncharted terrortories.Legend has it was part of a conspiracy to kill music by killing the sound systems on which tit was played.The use of high pitched frequencies that alledgedly accompanie the finale psychodelic soundscape apparently sent dogs berserk.This exercise in pop auto destruction was set against a curiously surreal event whereby its` covers were all hand painted,all 21.000 of them,Transforming record stores into exhibitions and converting a studio into a manic swinging enviroMental work in progress.The artists involved were supposedly plunged into a work-to-the-death schedule,adorned wirh war paint in an attempt to get into charactet together with portable headphones playing ancient mystic sound effects cobbled together to tracks of the album in reverse.They entered and interlocked into the studio installation where still wet picture discs under dimned lighting rotated upon cannabalised music systems to become mixed media flurescent light shows prior to being sealed in vinyl.The human dynamos exercised their right to jettison themselves to the dark side of the brain to create an artistic endeavour as disconnected as possible from anything that had been done before.Or perhaps disillusioned space cadets flying around in fighter planes dropping paint bombs and looking for obscure meanings.E ither way art had indeed becone the new rock and roll.