Janis Joplin - Cheap Thrills - 1968
Initially, the album was to be called Sex, Dope and Cheap Thrills, but the title was not received well by Columbia Records. The cover was drawn by underground cartoonist Robert Crumb after the band's original cover idea: a picture of the group naked in bed together, which was dropped by Columbia.
Crumb had originally intended his art for the LP back cover, with a portrait of Joplin to grace the front. But Joplin, an avid fan of underground comics, especially the work of Crumb, so loved the Cheap Thrills illustration that she demanded Columbia Records to place it on the front cover.
Initially, the album was to be called Sex, Dope and Cheap Thrills, but the title was not received well by Columbia Records. The cover was drawn by underground cartoonist Robert Crumb after the band's original cover idea: a picture of the group naked in bed together, which was dropped by Columbia.
Crumb had originally intended his art for the LP back cover, with a portrait of Joplin to grace the front. But Joplin, an avid fan of underground comics, especially the work of Crumb, so loved the Cheap Thrills illustration that she demanded Columbia Records to place it on the front cover.