The thing with vinyl is the fantastic artwork that crept in around the 70's or maybe late 60's
And one in particular creamed them all and that was Tull's ' Thick As A Brick '
If anyone is young enough to remember the original and bought it on vinyl ( me ! ) it was utterly fabulous
It was actually a bit of a piss take by Anderson, but he went to the extreme, as the album was just one track that started on side one and ended on side two.
You had to like Tull i guess to buy their stuff, but it was fabulous music. Quite complex
But the sleeve was out of this world. It was the size of a mini broadsheet newspaper, and it had pages and stories just like a newspaper. It really was the ultimate vinyl sleeve, IMO of course
http://www.rhino.com/article/doing-a-180-jethro-tull-thick-as-a-brick