Can’t settle on the lettering placement.

Which one do you think is better?

Bottom right.

Agree bottom right but hard to see the ampersand. Yes I had to look that term up

Bottom right

top left the & gets lost in the other two

and me and jumping over a cover to read is a no go for me , but that is probably a me issue.

I would try some colors other than white for the text.

You can try using a less comic-sans'y font, maybe with serifs or spurs, either hollow or one that will tolerate an outline, this way you'll still be able to use white.

Something in the Bronco series of fonts, or Knucklehead maybe.

white lettering with a black outline would make it pop off the page more

one trick is type some random letters that you don't recognize as a word , then play with the font , size , color and outline so that you can step back 6 feet from your computer screen and see each letter clearly

now someone can see you CD from the other side of the merch table at your concert.

Top Left, and you need a comma after the first word.

Revised.

Replace the bottle of Capt. with a jar of Backbreaker

The Capt’n is part of the trouble in “troubles”. lol

That last one looks good HT.

much better

You know your stuff. lol