Dancing Jester

I know that I'm not the only one that this has happened to, you hear a single, you buy a cd and it sucks-ouch. A waste of money, I know, I know-who still buys cds-well, I do. And I'm sure that I'm not alone. I've recently got a napster subscription and have been using that as my screening process which is cool because I can check out different genres and artists and really explore music without shelling out tons of loot. Long story short-I'm now jaded but getting over it.

Burned by:

Mary J Blidge- No Drama
Phish-I don't even remember which cd, because I prompty gave it away
Dalvin Degrates- Title not worth remembering
Alicia Keys- Songs in the key of life (I lot of people will disagree with me on this)
R.Kelly- The double cd R
Zwan- title unimportant
Camp Lo- I think they only had one cd anyway

obviously therapy is working because I have successfully blocked out a lot of past unpleasantness-- but which artists/cds have burned you with bad albums

boo boo

I wouldnt know because i dont own any bad albums.

Im very tasteful when it comes to shopping for cds.



EDIT:Ok, i have one, Kid Rocks Devil Without A Cause, but i was a stupid little kid.

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tuners

Ha! c'mon dood, you gotta have more than that! Unless you just have too much pride...

I once bought a Antipop Consortium CD Years ago and it wasnt what I expected....saw them live before the cd purchase and they killed it-oh well
hmmm, lets see, Im sure there are more, but I can't remember

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I bought that a Coldplay album based on "Don't Panic." Horrible decision.

half_baked87

i bought funeral for a friends casually dressed. i want my $20 back, and to beat them for being so lame.

boo boo

Im serious, Kid Rock taught me to choose my CDs wisely.

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Music Man

The nice thing about today is you can hear song samples of most CDs on the internet, or listen to them on headphones at a store before buying.

Back in the day of vinyl records and no internet, lots of people were just SOL. If you didn't know anybody who owned or had heard a particular record, buying it was a "hit or miss" proposition. Many stores back then didn't offer the capability of previewing a recording with headphones. Nowadays it's the norm.

Manic

The cd that has disappointed me most recently was Royksopps Understanding-Melody AM was awesome so of course I get excited about their new cd. Well...I had no idea that the cd was going to be more 'Pop-y' I mean there are a couple of good songs but I wasn't expecting it to be the way it was--the place I bought it from buys cds back but I was like, I'll just keep it--it will be my albatross --and there are like 4 alright/good songs.

tuners

Yeah, although lots of record stores do have listening stations.
The internet and artist websites do give the nice option of checking outa track, and I heard that Napster lets you listen to entire tracks before buying them. I think its some type of subscription concept.

A_Perfect_Sonnet

A few years ago:

Andrew WK - I Get Wet