I don’t know about you but I love MS Paint graphics/paintings/artwork/whatever the fuck you want to call them or think of them as. There’s something really compelling about Using MS paint and it’s rudimentary capabilities in try to express a visual concept. From the rigid and meticulous attention to detailed free handed ones, through to the quick and sloppy gestural drawings and even the ones utilizing MS Paints trace feature, I love them all!

The other thing I love (which should be no surprise) is music, so you can imagine that I was like a kid in a candy store upon discovering that Public Collectors has devoted a whole little little section to displaying and trying to catalog all instances of MS Paint renditions of classic, cult and obscure album cover artwork.

The collection originally started as Forum activity in 2007 on a few Stoner & Doom metal forums has grown into a 300+ strong collection of album covers that range from all sorts of Metal, Alternative, Classic Rock, Punk, Krautrock, Hip Hop to you name it! There’s probably at least one album cover representing any over-arching genre of music.

The collection is maintained by Marc Fischer and it has since moved to a Flickr account that’s a real time killer to go through. Hell I had a hard time just settling on the five images I was going to use for this post because I loved them all!

The collection is open to anyone to submit their own MS Painted album covers. The only rule is that they need to be at least 600 pixels or less per side. Submissions can be emailed here. If you think your MS Paint chops are up to snuff and you have oh about 5 or 10 minutes to spare then fill some of the gaps within this mighty and rad collection.

Thanks to Sur Tes Tripes for putting this on our radar.

- My Pal the Crook