The Greatest Album Cover Art We Saw in April 2011

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Even though digital music has taken over and album packaging seems like a thing of the past, you can still appreciate an awesome—or awesomely terrible—album cover. We've scoured the best and worst of them to bring you a look at The Greatest Album Cover Art We Saw In April 2011.

Lady Gaga, “Born This Way”

Release: May 23, 2011

Meat-wearing, pop music freakshow, Lady Gaga, releases her new album with this weird image that’s like a horrible Photoshop experiment gone awry.

Berner, “The White Album”

Release: April 19, 2011

Nothing discreet about this Bay Area rapper’s album cover. Berner leaves very little to the imagination.

Kool Keith, “Legend of Tashan Dorrsett”

Release: April 5, 2011

Rap’s favorite weirdo comes through with another alias, Tashan Dorrsett, a regular dude from New York who, from the looks of the cover, likes booty. Big surprise.

Waka Flocka Flame, “Benjamin Flocka”

Release: April 11, 2011

Brick Squad mixtape covers are always insanely cinematic. Flocka’s newest has more plot than a Christopher Nolan flick, but it makes the list for the homage to Waffle House. Wait... is that chick holding a power drill?

Smoke Dza, “The Hustler’s Catalog”

Release: April 11, 2011

Nas did it first, but he doesn’t have a monopoly on baby pic album art. Especially when said baby pic is flipped like this. Check the point on that collar—this kid is a hustler, for sure.

Lil Wayne, “Tha Carter IV”

Release: June 21, 2011

Another smiling little dun. Wayne reimagines himself as child graduate—tats, piercings and all. We can only hope the tracks are as good as the cover. Unfortunately, we have to wait until June for this one.

MF Doom, “Operation Doomsday”

Release: April 19, 2011

Here’s one way to outsmart the digital masses: create album packaging that you can’t download. Underground hip-hop hero MF Doom rereleases his standout debut packaged in a lunch box that comes loaded with the original album and tons of extras.

Stevie Nicks, “In Your Dreams”

Release: May 3, 2011

Oh, Stevie. We know the 60s were hard on you, but when did you become a full-fledged medieval fantasy character? This is awful.

Tyler, “Goblin”

Release: May 10, 2011

Odd Future’s frontman dropped this oddball album art a while back. It’s not clear why he chose this image of a young William Fredrick “Buffalo Bill” Cody, but rumor has it that the Wild West showman was 19 when the photo was taken, the same age as Tyler during the album's recording.

Iggy Pop, “Roadkill Rising: The Bootleg Collection 1977-2009”

Release: May 17, 2011

The Godfather of punk’s bootleg collection features this sick skinned-alive cover art by crazy fantasy comic artist William Stout. We didn’t think Iggy could get any more ripped. Apparently he can.