Judging a book by its cover...

[Corsair]

What about Quadcore? I've heard it's reallllly fast, speedy stuff.

But Hexacore is faster! And hotter, too.

It's funny, everytime I am with someone and a song that they don't recognize comes on and they ask me who it is I never tell them. I always ask them "Do you like this?".

I did this once with my fiancee, who is a hardcore Iced Earth/Matt Barlowe fan but said she *Hated* the Ripper IE stuff. I know that she'll ask who a band is if she likes the sound, so I sorta snuck in one of the stronger tracks from Something Wicked pt. 1, she was all "YEAH! i'm diggin' this! who is it?"

"Iced earth....with TEH RIPPAR "
"OH GOD! NO! WHY DID YOU DO THIS TO ME? NOW I LIKE RIPPER!"

But it goes both ways, I was the same way with Nightwish for a long time.

 

[Creeps]

Poets and Pornstars was a blind buy for me at ProgPower
Epica wasn't a blind buy. The music between bands (ProgPower # 5 or 6 I think) kept on playing Epica and I ran out and bought one immediately...good thing too 'cuz Ken from LaserCD ran out later Friday night.

I remember sitting in the seats and going, hey I just bought that! I saw the cover, asked if it was female vocals, someone said it was really good and had some growly vocals as well, I bought it on the spot.