I love bands - it's kinda a souvenir, something worth collecting, and a cool way to have proof or rememberance of smoking the cigar. I cannot think of any sticks I bought because of the band alone. However, there are some, like Ezra Zions, where the band is awesome artwork, which I think is both very cool and respectable. I've seen some cool CAO Xmas LEs that I'd buy in a heartbeat, but I'm not a huge CAO fan. If there were more monster or creature related bands, I'd definitely buy to both out of curiosity and to collect the band, since I'm a big horror fan - that's part of my interest with the Monster series, especially the Krueger (shout-out to Josh). I do not like tough-guy or manly bands like with skulls, but have been humbled by the actual cigar (Asylum). So I guess the marketing goes both ways with me - most of the time I'm not buying for the band, amd sometimes the band intrigues me to want to try the cigar and to have a cool new collectable.