# The 'Bad' "Good Old" Days **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bad-good-old-days/613030 **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share **Created:** [February 16, 2012, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bad-good-old-days/613030 "2012-02-16T15:11:44Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 20
### Author: ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons) #### Post date: [February 17, 2012, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bad-good-old-days/613030/20 "2012-02-17T18:01:31Z")
> [@Lynn\_Bodoni](#): > > Vinyl albums and even some vinyl singles had cover art, and sometimes some extra goodies. For instance, _Sgt. Pepper_ had a sheet of cut out artwork, and I think it had some other goodies as well. Now, MOST albums didn’t have the extra goodies, but just the cover art on most albums was a great extra. And you just can’t get that level of art goodness on a smaller package, there’s not enough area. I recall that the White Album had four 8x10 portraits of the Beatles, suitable for framing; that McCartney’s _Wings over America_ had a full-size poster of the band; Elton John’s _Captain Fantastic_ included two booklets, one with lyrics and one with reprints of news clippings and photos of Elton’s and Bernie’s history; and that Jim Steinman’s _Bad for Good_ even included a 7" EP with the music he wanted to include in the album but that wouldn’t fit on the 12" LP. As **Lynn** mentioned, most albums didn’t have such things, but for those that did, the extra goodies were real treats. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bad-good-old-days/613030)._