Ongoing History Daily: What was this classic album cover trying to say?

The piece focuses on how vinyl’s 12×12 format gives designers room to build album art with meaning, using Nirvana’s Nevermind cover as the example. It explains that the artwork—showing a naked baby underwater reaching for a dollar bill on a fishing hook—has become one of the most recognizable album covers in history. The article attributes the concept to designer Robert Fisher, who intended a punk-rock statement against late 20th-century capitalism, mixed with the cynicism associated with Gen X. Nirvana, according to the text, embraced the idea because it matched their anti-corporate feelings.