# Album cover art that references other album cover art

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-cover-art-that-references-other-album-cover-art/818989>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 2, 2018, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-cover-art-that-references-other-album-cover-art/818989 "2018-08-02T17:00:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
**Page:** 3

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2018, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-cover-art-that-references-other-album-cover-art/818989/41 "2018-08-06T19:18:54Z")

</div>

> [@thelurkinghorror](#):
>
> Stormtroopers of Death - [Bigger than the Devil - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigger_than_the_Devil#/media/File%3AStormtroopers_of_Death-Bigger_than_the_Devil.jpgBigger) Than the Devil

That looks like a blatant rip-off.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2018, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-cover-art-that-references-other-album-cover-art/818989/42 "2018-08-06T20:37:09Z")

</div>

> [@Gatopescado](#):
>
> That looks like a blatant rip-off.

:dubious: a blatant ripoff is a homage, wouldn’t it be? If you’re trying to steal something, it doesn’t help to be blatant.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2018, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-cover-art-that-references-other-album-cover-art/818989/43 "2018-08-07T07:03:34Z")

</div>

Dunno. Don’t know anything about that band. But if that was “homage”, it was pretty weak. “Homage” would have been Eddie puppeteering the SOD figure, puppeteering the devil. 😉

Just my uneducated opinion.

[Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/album-cover-art-that-references-other-album-cover-art/818989.md?page=2)