Quoted from Aurich:I was curious, so was looking back through not only old album covers, but concert posters, and anything else I could find that was 'official' in any way.
Gotta say, Led Zeppelin might be a classic band, but unlike a lot of great bands, they've never had much in the way of cool art. I really didn't see much that I thought "oh man, if only they could have used this". Some people might say Mothership, but not only is that the opposite of classic, I dunno that Shepard Fairey really screams "Led Zeppelin" to me.
Clearly the license didn't allow for original art. Stern hasn't been shy about paying artists to do cool hand drawn packages of late. But that's the only way I could see this living up to what people had hoped for. Blame the band, or better yet, their management, for not letting Stern take that route. Don't call Stern lazy, I doubt this is what they wanted.
This is exactly how I felt. I had been wondering what they were going to do for art as the album covers are hardly noteworthy and there isn’t a lot of zeppelin memorabilia. It’s very different than metallics, maiden, Aerosmith, even acdc. I’m not a fan of any of the artwork, but if I had to pick I’d pick the premium, mainly for nostalgic reasons. That blue on the LE has to go.