Ever bought a prog L.P.....

Syntharachnid wrote: little_neutrino wrote: I admit I've never done that before. I've done it with books though, and ended up with some real crap and some ... even worse crap. They're right when they tell you not to judge the book by its cover, man. I've never bought CDs based on the cover, but I have bought one book without so much as reading the back.  I just read the title, "Market Forces" and bought it.  I'm reading it right now, it's brilliant!

I'm glad you did well with it then - it never seems to work with me. I picked up something that looked neat but was total crap! About Casanova and Lord Byron and this fictional painter who was both their lovers ... it was like a fanfiction on history and the author just inserted herself into the mix to make things tonnes worse.  And then tried to compensate for it by making Casanova's cat talk and give feline opinions about things.  On the upside, at least her facts about the history were right.

I admit I've never done that before. I've done it with books though, and ended up with some real crap and some ... even worse crap. They're right when they tell you not to judge the book by its cover, man.

But what I have done is, and what I continue to do, is buy music (LPs and CDs - though really cheap CDs) based on the name alone. Which is just as bad as buying stuff because it looks nice.

On the other hand, that's how I got into Yes, and Tull, and ELP, Rush (incidentally it was Hemispheres as well!!), and Mike Oldfield. So ... I dunno. I must just be really really lucky not to pick the sucky albums when randomly buying.

I've never done such a horrible thing....

this may be a little OT but, does anybody know what the hell is that thing on the THRAK cover? still guessing after maybe 10 years.....