Originally Posted by Frownland

I generally keep them entirely separate because even the ****tiest people have moments of non-****tiness, and I imagine that music can be made in between bouts of piece of ****-being. I view it in the same way I would a scientist who developed some sort of groundbreaking theory then turned out to be a rapist or something. I view their work being its own separate entity, unaffected by the lifestyle choices of the person that made it.

There are some cases that I can't separate the artist from their art because it so much a part of them though. One example of this is John Duncan's Blind Date, which is the audio of Duncan having sex with a corpse before getting a vascectomy. I'm not particularly offended by Duncan's piece, there's just no clear way for me to separate the artist from the art in that scenario.