Hai, I agree but I personally think (and no one has to agree its only an opinon) that the visuals sometimes enhance the music, I'm not saying that it does much, but for me it helps display the music in an tangible form.
What i mean by this is, I REALLY love plays and performnaces, like brodway shows and musicals, for me that's perfect, it mixes the musical element with somthing more, a visual art.
Any band that can do that REALLY make the experience of litening to thier music better for me, like take hide for example. Lots of people loved him, his voice and music was original and he didn't drop the visual shock along the way. THATS what I love about his music, its not only good, but his visuals let me associate colors with the songs. To me that's important (I'm a crazy artist, what do you expect)
Malice mizer is another good example with thier fantacy like settings and play-like concerts. Is visual, its shocking an it enhances the experience of thier music. And I personally don't like DeG all that much, they've got the look, but thier music just doens't appea to me, further reinforceing the "good music" point
Oh and I was only asking if people prefered visual bands or regular bands, I consiter it a genre somewhat like "pop" or "punk" punk is both a sub culture and a music genre so, I think it works out...maybe
) But for some people its the only reason for getting the CD you know? 
