Buying by faith or by listening to the album first?
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Posted by Darth Satanious, 17.05.2006 - 03:54
Also, at times I go with the opinions of other Metalheads and I venture myself into buying albums of genres that I like very much. Of course, I need to see that this band is praised a lot by the people liking them and that they give reasons for liking them so much. Then I try to listen to some songs from the band and if they are good I decide to buy the album. Up until now this strategy hasn't failed me.
Then, there are those who have to listen to the whole album before deciding to spend any money in them.
I would say that I do a little of all the strategies I mentioned above. It all depends of the circumstances. None, of them has failed me yet, except for one time in which I bought this crappy album for this crappy band but let us forget that now. lol
Now, how do you decide to buy albums? Do you go blindly to the store to buy them or are you really cautious in what you spend your money?
| Evil Chip Posts: 505  |
I like to buy it without hearing any reviews so I can make my own opinion. Its also more exciting.
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| ForeverDarkWoods Posts: 1001  |
Written by Evil Chip on 17.10.2009 at 22:34 Well, that's a way you could do it if you don't mind spending a bunch of money on an album that wight as well suck major donkey anus. Unfortunately, I don't have the amount of money necessary to ppay full price for an album that I haven't at least heard before. I do make some blind purchases, but in these cases I nearly always buy the album used or otherwise very cheap. But then again, I personally tend to not want to buy albums at full price at all (too expensive for my tastes). Most of my albums have been bought second hand or very cheap for some other reason.
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| MickeyDeez79 Posts: 33  |
Very rarely, I buy albums out of faith, but almost all the time, I listen to albums before buying. And I don't own CDs, I upload them on my iPod.
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| HeavyMetalBullet Posts: 15  |
I used to buy albums from my favourite bands as soon as they came out but after getting burned with St Anger (Metallica) I now tend to listen to the album before purchasing, although having said that I did still go out and buy Death Magnetic before listening... will not be making the same mistake with Lulu if the snippets heard so far are anything to go by! I think it's expected now for people to listen to the album or at least a selection of tracks first evidenced by the amount of bands that stream music from the albums before the release date including videos on you tube. Personally I think this is the best way to go as it means being able to experiment a bit more and explore both lesser known bands or just bands you haven't listened to before without having to fork out hard earned cash on every new release
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| RockeRoy Posts: 641  |
I always download first, and buy the albums that i realy love, usualy the one i give from 8 to 10 in ratings. I bought one album by faith as you call it, Runemagic's Resurrection In Blood, and that was a huge dissapointment.
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| GroundZero Posts: 90  |
It depends... By faith: Joe Satriani By listening to the album in YouTube first: the others...
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| Mattybu Posts: 2589  |
Yeah it all depends for me, some bands I'll trust to put out an interesting album but for shaky bands (perfect example these days: Metallica) I'll check reviews, listen to snippets, etc.
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| AnGina-- Dark Phoenix Posts: 3555  |
I'm always buying an album that I have already listened. I only made the mistake of buying by faith once, and it was Tristania Ashes. I waited for that album untill I got my own copy and didn't listen to anything, except for two songs I knew from the live show they did before Ashes came out. It turned out to be a not such a great idea, since the album wasn't as nearly as good as I hoped. I learned my lesson so I listen to an album before I buy it. Then I buy those I really really like and maybe some of those I don't really love to the max, but are from my fave bands.
---- You think darkness is your ally? You merely adopted the dark. I was born in it. Molded by it. I didn't see the light until I was a man. But it was nothing to me but blinding.
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