Masthead Ideas

Recently, I have been using photoshop, trying out a couple of ideas for my Masthead:




I prefer the lower picture as it fits the kind of house style that I'm aiming to achieve, with a broken and distressed effect.

For my final masthead I was thinking of taking photos of a hand or a pair of hands holding up a vinyl record to emphasize the theme of music and to give the masthead the vintage-like, distressed look.