Just recently our design editor wrote about how the alternate album cover art trend was going too far. From Sabrina Carpenter to Charli XCX, it's like artists can't choose any more.
The cynical among us might say that it's ploy to milk the most diehard fans. Either way, artists are weakening the identities of their own releases in the process. The best album covers are are iconic because there was a single memorable design, not a different version for every day of the week.
