Even if you don't already have a Tumblr account, you're probably familiar with the site: Pages on the microblogging service can be available for public viewing, which is how bored office workers have been able to inundate the internet with weird cat pictures and Ryan Gosling postcards.
But don't worry about missing out: we'll make it our mission to share with you some of the finer Tumblr treatments we've come across.
Today's Tumblr meme? The doctored album cover.
Live! I See Dead People
What if musicians were to disappear from their own album covers when they passed away?
The Beatles, Abbey Road
Nirvana, Smells Like Teen Spirit
Ol' Dirty Bastard, Return to the 36 Chambers
The Ramones
The Who, Odds & Sods
The Kitten Covers
Cute cats and rock 'n' roll: Together at last.
David Bowie, Young Americans
Blondie, Parallel Lines
INXS, Kick
Dr. Dre, The Chronic
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Kicking Against the Pricks
Clip-Art Covers
What could be more appropriate for our rushed digital age than the sight of classic album covers rendered in clip art and comic sans font?
Beck, Odelay
Hole, Live Through This
Joy Division, Unknown Pleasures
Neutral Milk Hotel, In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here
The Prodigy, The Fat of the Land
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