Manchester Orchestra and Annuals cover each other’s songs on this seven inch, so I thought that their art guy and me should do our own versions of the other’s cover art.  My wife took the picture of me and our dog, Ziggy (replacing the goat or whatever that is on the Annuals cover), out in the woods one day.  Once I had the artwork for the covers I laid it all out.  The labels on the vinyl are made to look like the Favorite Gentlemen labels but with the cover stars taking place of the gentleman.  

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When i did this 7″ design back in late 2002 or early 2003, i was just learning how to use photoshop again (i had used a super early version at a journalism camp in high school) and really was clueless.  i didn’t own a computer and was on what was pretty much the Jet By Day communal pc in their house.  It was a learning experience and i’m still proud of the final product.  There are, of course, some things that i would change if i had to do it over, but I still think that its a pretty cool and unique 7″ package.  For the record, I’m a little embarrassed about the oversight on the label.  i haven’t made that mistake since.