So in all the posted pics of TPTB on CD... I never saw the amazing Marilyn Monroe window art. What happened? Did it not make the cut?
TBH, the CD layout looks like a bit of a mess with only NOTM's art and a totally blank page. Am I just missing something here?
Posted Mar 18, 2015, 4:24 PM UTC
We partly think this whole thing might've been a ruse on us... Making us think TPTB was wrongly put there. That's conspiracy, though
Sorry, I'm not following. You mean that copy of TPTB could have been for display only or faked by the store (w/ just NOTM)?
Well, there was no Jenny on the cover for Jenny Death. Why else would they do that?
Seems like they could have faked that just as easily if they did everything else though; like why go through the trouble of making a whole CD booklet but leave that out?
Unless that was just a promotional thing sent by Harvest.
Wait a sec... "Waiting Room Records". Lmao what better store to host a ruse like this at? Call it a coincidence, but if the store was on board with it it's within their power to host a ruse like that. They seem like a smaller store, so they'd be more than likely to be down with that.
I sorta agree tbh
P.s. Has anyone noticed that Jenny only has four fingers on each hand?
holy fucking shit!!
Jenny is probably on the actual CD.
Another theory: maybe Death Grips intentionally left that space blank. We've been asking where Jenny is this whole time, so perhaps this is an extension of that? Considering they fill that blank space with the video for On GP, perhaps they've got something up their sleeves with regard to that.
She's your experience, after all.
Look at the fucking cover it's all jacked up and clipped I don't buy it
They used different art for the Government Plates release. Probably the same deal for TPTB
There hasn't been a prior digital release of Jenny Death though, unlike Gov't Plates. Also there seems to just be a blank / completely white segment where the Marilyn Art should be.
Had they just replaced it with something else, I think that would have been okay, but it looks kind of weird now just blank.
Inanimate sensation video was plastered with the image and it's on their website :-/
afaik the cover booklet was taken out alongside the CD, probably the most likely situation, along with the lyric sheets.
Maybe they didn't get the rights to the image, but the official video for On GP showed us this anyway.
This is the most logical explanation so far. Maybe the establishment who owns the window didn't want it on the album for some reason.
Had they released JD themselves, that wouldn't have mattered I guess.
i still think it would have been unprofessional for Harvest to allow DG to advertise the image. If that was the case, I feel like Harvest would have told them that they can't use the image.
Sometimes these things have to be cleared by a legal team, so maybe they didn't initially think it would be a problem...
i guess, but for them to just assume is quite the mistake for a major label
Marilyn's image is Public Domain
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/appeals-court-rules-marilyn-monroes-image-public-estate-367160
"In the opinion, the appellate judges affirm that Monroe LLC can't claim in court that the legendary actress was living in California at the time of her death, which means that her heirs can't take advantage of the state's generous laws allowing individuals to hold rights on their name, image, and likeness."