badly-phrased q bcs I am hungover and preoccupied, sorry!

[catsgomiaow.livejournal.com]

alexmacpherson says on his LJ that the Tori Amos album might make his top 5 albums of the year list, but "suspect[s] this is only because it's her". I thought this might be an interesting idea to bat about.

- have you ever bought a record by your favourite act KNOWING that it was going to be a bit crap, but "because it's them" had to have it? I guess this is a question really about dissecting yr loyalties - for example, I buy every album that Kristin Hersh makes. The last few haven't, if I'm honest, been all that good (though the most recent "Learn To Sing Like A Star" has some truly outstanding stuff on it) but I just sort of feel I OWE her for making some of the most important records in my life, and for being amazing generally. And because she has kids to support and is one of the few people around whose work quite literally IS their life, if you see what I mean, and I think she works hard and is dedicated in a way that, for example, Girls Aloud don't SEEM to (note I say SEEM to, I'm sure they work very hard etc etc). My Kristin-love does not extend to buying 50FootWave records though :(


- at what point do you STOP putting up with sub-par offerings? I bought every REM record up to "Monster" (haha I remember being off school that day and walking up to Woolworths to buy it on cassette even though I thought "What's The Frequency, Kenneth" was a bit sh1t). I tried and tried but really couldn't get into it (tho again, there were a few good tracks). The next time they released an album I didn't buy it and haven't bought one since - I don't know if they lost their magic, or if it was me that had changed, or what!

- who (if anyone) will you always ALWAYS buy every single record by, even if they release a Cliff Richard covers album?

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[anatol-merklich.livejournal.com]

Ago: ALWAYS hoover up everything at sight*
Now: NO LOYALTY w/s/evs!**

at what point do you STOP putting up with sub-par offerings?
This falls only into the "ago" category, due to 2nd reply above. Answer: at teh reunion. Madness ahem. Reunion was closer to "now" though, so probably inconclusive.

*) Prob also has to do with the (in these discussions seemingly inevitable) pre-/post-everything-available divide (and maybe even more so for me because geography/distribution – get it while you've got your eyes on it!). I'll not go into the "buy/dl" thing here though (but see below) – I could well see myself downloading the collected-works-since-I-dropped-em of some Old Heroes if I were still on illegit dl channels.

**) K-hersh may actually be an exception here now you mention it (oh ok K-bush is another, but that doesn't bother my bank account or shelves too much) – I may not necessarily buy a newly-released record by her when it appears or for a year or five thereafter, but I'll probably get it sooner or later. (Aside: thank you 4ad for dealing with emusic hurrah!) Speaking of which...
My Kristin-love does not extend to buying 50FootWave records though :(
FROWNYFACE INDEED.