15 album covers reimagined with Astros players

Jose Altuve on the cover of "Thriller" by Michael Jackson Browse through the photos for more album covers redesigned with Astros players Photo Getty/Edit Demetrio Teniente

Jose Altuve on the cover of "Thriller" by Michael Jackson Browse through the photos for more album covers redesigned with Astros players Photo Getty/Edit Demetrio Teniente Photo: Photo Getty/Edit Demetrio Teniente Photo: Photo Getty/Edit Demetrio Teniente Image 1 of / 23 Caption Close Astros Album Covers 1 / 23 Back to Gallery

It may come as a shock to some of you, but there was a time when you actually had to leave your house to buy a physical copy of the music you wanted to listen to.

Having been born in the early '90s I was fortunate enough to grow up using mostly CDs but also the occasional tape cassette ... you know, back when you had to buy an entire album if you wanted to hear your favorite artist on your portable CD player with new anti-skip technology.

The struggle was real but so was the effort put into designing albums and the packages they came in. Album artwork still exists today and some are as beautifully iconic as their pre-streaming predecessors - think Chance the Rapper's "Coloring Book" or Childish Gambino's "Awaken, My Love!"

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Anyway, we are still in the early days of the 2018 MLB season and with all this baseball being played I thought I'd combine two of my favorite things: baseball and iconic/popular album covers.

I make the distinction between "iconic" and " popular" because while some of the album covers I chose are no-doubters, others are probably too new to be considered iconic. So if you see one and think, "why that album?" it's because I liked it.

I'm by no means a photoshop master, but making theses was a lot of fun. You'll notice that there are a lot of Jose Altuve and Justin Verlander. That's mostly because when I thought about each album and who I wanted to put on it, they made me laugh the most and of all the player photos I looked through they had the best faces.

Browse through the photos above for 15 album covers reimagined with Astros players.



