No one likes the taste of alcohol. They like the flavors and additives put in alcohol. Pure alcohol is just a clear bottle that will burn your esophagus and make you spit it back up.
So this is sort of an argument of semantics, more than anything else. No one is going to say "Oh my God, I LOVE that bottle of Everclear. It tastes delicious." But, someone could easily say, "Man, I LOVE that mixed drink with coconut and pineapple juice mixed with Barcadi 151."
It's all about how the beverage is prepared. The same applies to beer. There is no such thing as "pure alcohol" that you can buy, unless your buying a bottle of denatured Ethyl or something, like in the picture of the OP.
In certain states, Michigan for example, it's illegal to sell any alcohol above 151 proof. Anything over that is strictly banned.