Does cover art of an album or recording influences your purchase?

"Cover art may never be as powerful as the music itself ...":  I should hope not!  It's all about the music in my world.  Cover art should be the icing on the cake.

Covers that convinced me to listen before I knew the artist or was otherwise familiar with the music:  0.

Covers that influenced (i.e.  never convinced) me to buy an album:  maybe a handful and none that I can remember.

Covers that have etched themselves into my memory:  several Cat Stevens albums; Dark Side of the Moon; Desperado; Jazz (by Ry Cooder); a few by The Moody Blues; Winelight by Grover Washinton, Jr. and many, many more.  

I am also a visual person with photography interest. I particularly like when the cover and the music have relationship. Some examples:

The Ex - Blueprints for a Blackout

Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation

Yakima Jera - Capture

Videotraum - Ebbe // Flut

I don't buy albums just for the cover art, but certain cover art has made me pause with the purchase. E.g., She pleasures herself - Latex, but I very much like the music.

And then there are the creative cover arts such as the variable inserts into the die-cut cover of Throwing Snow's - Dragons. Or the Art edition of Volcan's - Chansons pour le néant. Or the friendship editions from eins.zwei.acht label. That is I find truly exciting.

The album covers are not as important as the music, but they are critical to the overall vinyl experience.  Imagine a world where they were all just plain white cardboard?

@onhwy61 - that's what a lot of bootlegs were like in the 1970's - white cardboard with a title stamped on it.... 

@jasonbourne71