Album Covers - Does it matter?

Alex wrote: You can't judge a book by its cover, and same goes for albums. But its hard not to sometimes, if you see a weird cover that looks like its not your style inside, you may avoid it. I don't think it matters once you start listening though.

Of course, there are some covers you don't like, but you enjoy the music. But it's also amazing (at least in my case) how my pictorial/visual tastes go with my muscal tastes, two not very related arts (one is a art of 'space', the other an art of 'time'). Many of the prog artist I like seem to like also fantasy drawings and certain periods of art history (pre-raphaelites, simbolists, romantic movement...), and that's my cup of tea. I think it's related to the un-cynic nature of some prog music (something not in time with what's fashionable nowadays, what might explain one of the multiple factors why prog is despised today). That special componet of prog is related with these visual arts, so there's a logial conecction between tastes. Or it's too early in the morning and I'm only writting nosense. Oh, my...