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The Curse of First Impression

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jcknbl:
It took me a really long time to listen to the Butthole Surfers because of the name.

Scytale:
I used to follow a similar practice, until I bought "A Fine Day to Exit" When it first came out.

It had a cool album title. Cool cover and was by a band with a very good reputation and back catalogue (Anathema). It's sound complety threw me, its not a bad album (In fact I quite enjoy it now) but it was completely not what I was expecting. Since then I don't really go and buy anything with a pre-concieved notion of what I expect the album to sound like.

Praeserpium Machinarum:
Well of course there are exceptions, I bought Mr. Bungle - Disco Volante on a whim and I never listen to it. I can only vaguely remember what it sounds like.

Another example of my quirks is that I just bought a Bill Laswell record without actually having heard any straight Laswell. Basically I argued that the Trojan Dub Massive compilations were awesome and that one Praxis song was ditto so of course him on his own making a sort of spiritual album would be awesome. I think I am developing a fetish with buying albums by artists I have never heard anything by. There is certain rush to it, since it may be utter shit and it may be the best album ever.
Also I let Allmusic dictate what I listen to. Yes I know, it is quite sad.
But then again they are usual dead on.

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