Artists whose new releases you buy automatically without thinking about it first

Iron Maiden

Pet Shop Boys

 

Way way way too many to mention. Most of my music collection is complete or nearly complete collections. If I already have everything I am guaranteed to pick up their new record.

 

nobody anymore. there was a time, but that is long gone. i may well listen to an album, but never just buy it

 

Jack White
The Raconteurs
Rolling Stones
Arctic Monkeys
Vampire Weekend
Supertramp
MGMT (although I've been let down on album # 3 and somewhat on album # 4)
The Strokes
Television
Eurythmics
John Fogerty

Kicked off my list based on their last 1 - 2 albums - meaning I'd have to research and listen first before purchasing:-
Madonna
Procol Harum
Neil Young
The National

 

this

 

Ty Seagall
Teenage Fanclub
The Breeders
Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band

 

Beatles
Beach Boys
Springsteen

 

Rolling Stones only

 

Australian alternative-rock band The Church.

It used to be like that with Ryan Adams, too.

But his two last albums, 1989 and Prisoner, have made me more wary.
Nonetheless - for various reasons - I have a pretty good feeling that his next album
will be a keeper.

 

For me, there are no auto-buys anymore. Once there was, most recently 20 years ago or so. But now, all the bands/artists that were once auto-buys have either disbanded or their output has moved in unlikable directions.

 

Two:

Todd Rundgren
Kate Bush

New Todd Rundgren albums are fairly frequent, and he may be off on something completely bizarre in a genre he's never worked in before, but it will always retain some essential "Todd-ness."

New Kate Bush albums are incredibly rare, and only a great fool would avoid getting a new one.

 

Agnes Obel, Anna Calvi, Kylie, Courtney Barnett, Saint Etienne, Nick Cave,

 

Mostly I do this only for instrumental guitarists like:

Mr. Fastfinger
Alexandra Zerner
Sithu Aye
Lari Basilio
Paul Wardingham
Nick Johnston
Plini
Antonello Giliberto

... and a handful others.

I used to do this for some renowned Metal acts like Dream Theater, but I didn't purchase their latest album "The Astonishing".

Outside of that, I research most of the new (metal) stuff based on music and sound quality. I don't buy today's pop music .

 

Television? Do they have new product in the pipeline?

 

Nobody anymore because I've been burned too many times by bad albums. Even my favorite artists get their new albums scrutinized by me reading reviews first.

 

Rush
Van Halen
Black Sabbath

Although none of them put anything out anymore

 

Current touring/recording acts only:

Stones
Ghost
Maiden
The Cult
Foo Fighters (although I might need some convincing after their last two albums)

 

Afghan Whigs

 

Just my wishful thinking...

 

Brian Eno
Pere Ubu
The Residents

 

Radiohead, Foo Fighters...from more recent artists...probably gonna continue with Queens of the Stoneage... I thought that Jack White would be another example but I just can't really listen to his latest output.

 

No one. There used to be bands (The Residents, Ubu, Cow, Can, Boredoms) like that but now I listen first. After a few albums where I realised my favourite band (any of those mentioned) had mutated into something that didn't work for me as it did before, I stopped the blind buying.

 

Tom Waits
Nick Cave
The War On Drugs
Tool

 

currently only two:

Lana Del Rey
Neil Young

 

Richard Thompson