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[call_me_lovey]

Hiya,

If you really like a band, should you have all their albums?? Would you keep an album you hated because it was theirs?? Do you think music you grew up with ends up appealing more??Depends. If a band has been going for years, at least a couple of their albums are bound to disappoint. I have a couple I played once, didn't like, & haven't

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[mondengel]

I tend to get every single song and album I can of the bands I like, and the ones that aren't so good on the first listen end up good once I hear it enough times.

As for the question of whether music I grew up appeals more, I would say not necessarily, but I think I still have and like a lot of it because I grew up with it. It's just not my favorites and never will be.

[figure_skater18]

There are some bands that I will have every album of (and in the case of the Beatles, multiple copies on multiple formats). Since I don't download music (just out of the pure fact that I don't want to get more viruses on my computer than I probably already have lol), I have a few less than stellar albums in my collection, but, I still love it.

And I almost entirely listen to music that I was brought up on - thus my love for the Beatles!

[nature_maiden]

If you like it, buy it. If you don't, leave it be. It's not like the band/singer/whatever is going to show up at your door and go all ballistic and whiny, because you didn't like/buy one of their albums. Also, it's pretty unfair to judge someone's "fan sincerity" by how many albums they have.

[bluesman]

I tend to be a completist, so I have mediocre elpees by people when I really ought to have just got their good ones. On the other hand, there are so many CDs I want to get that spending money an album I know is shite gets in the way of buying something much better.

Some music I liked as a kid/young adult still appeals, Steve Hillage for instance, and the Beatles, but other chaps I can take only in small doses, Captain Beefheart for instance, as much of his stuff is so abrasive and I haven't the energy to listen to difficult music now!

I never bought music to fit in with a certain crowd. I have always gone my own way, and came to terms long ago with the fact that hardly anybody I know likes some of the bands I love. Many have never even heard of them. I follow my lonely course with enthusiasm and not a little snobbery...

[tabular_rasa]

When I say I like a band, it usually means I like enough of their songs that I could go to one of their concerts and enjoy the majority of the material played, but it doesn't mean I own every single one of their albums or songs. I have never encountered a band whose entire discography I adored; in every album there's always going to be a track or two I'll skip or not even put in my music folder in the first place, and when it comes to my music collection, I stick solely to songs I like, regardless of who performs them. I really like that places like iTunes allows me to download individual track instead of having to purchase a full CD I may only listen to 2/3 of.

I don't tend to "outgrow" music, though. I still have songs on my ipod I first heard in high school, middle school, or as a child. In some cases they seem embarrassingly angsty, but I still like listening to them for the nostalgia factor.