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

Bruce Springsteen
AC/DC
Stiff Little Fingers
Willie Nile
Sonic's Rendezvous Band
Radio Birdman

 

I envy those who can afford to buy anything they want, I sure can't either. Those deluxe box sets are impossible for me (going for the 2 CD version of Sgt. Pepper, not the super deluxe box).

 

Joe Jackson
Elvis Costello
Emmylou Harris
King Crimson
Gillian Welch
Shelby Lynne

And should they ever release another album (not likely, but you never know):
Billy Joel
XTC
Talking Heads

 

Elio e le Storie Tese
Ian Anderson/Jethro Tull (although "The String Quartet" almost made me drop out of this)

 

Hendrix, if there's "previously unreleased" material on the album, as my strategy has always been to own every note he ever played, and even some albums where he doesn't play a note...

 

Neil Young,Tom Waits,Pj Harvey

 

Elton John and most any remix by Steven Wilson.

 

Andrew McMahon, Madonna, R.E.M. (from the archives, now.)

I've gotten into the habit of listening before I buy entire collections. I liked singles the best, so I tend to buy songs now. Before you didn't have that choice and I ended up with a lot of music I never listened to again.

 

I don't think I do anyone now.... You can't trust any of 'em.

 

Rush
Iron Maiden
Edguy
Avantasia
Airbourne
Iced Earth
Accept
Primal Fear
Wolf

 

Nick Cave, Van Morrison, PJ Harvey, Neil Young

Until recently, Bob Dylan. I still do, but now I think about it.

 

Dylan
Stones
Richard Thompson
Kasey Chambers
...among others

 

Peter Perrett (Only Ones). UK's best songwriter .

 

Dylan (right up until this last album of crooner covers crap, yeesh, enough already)
Rolling Stones
Neil Young
Gillian Welch/David Rawlings

 

- Led Zeppelin
- Queens of the Stone Age
- Father John Misty (although that might change after the most recent snoozer)
- Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
- The Budos Band

 

I used to do it all the time in the 70's and 80's --Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones, Stevie Wonder, Steely Dan, Michael Jackson, Prince and later, the Wipers, Minutemen, Husker Du, Replacements, Meat Puppets, and finally with Public Enemy, Run DMC, A Tribe Called Quest, Eric B & Rakim, but there hasn't been anyone in years--probably the last one was Stereolab. Now you can hear a release before you buy it, and I have saved a fortune by not buying sub par releases.

 

I stopped that practice many years ago.

 

Me too.
There's really no reason for it anymore.

 

Arctic Monkeys
Temples
Tame Impala
Anna Calvi
Nada Surf
of Montreal
Dropkick Murphys
Flogging Molly
Rose Windows (but then they broke up)
Sugar Stems
The Grip Weeds
Purson (but then they broke up)

 

Bob Dylan
Neil Young
Bruce Springsteen
The Flaming Lips
Iron Maiden
Metallica
Slayer

All day one for me.

 

Not many.

Rolling Stones (always)

Anything from the Buckingham-McVie-Nicks lineup of Fleetwood Mac, including most solo projects and reissues

Garbage

 

David Gilmour
David Sylvian
Roger Eno

 

Sad, but true.

 

Snarky Puppy (and any groups who feature members of Snarky Puppy)
Queens of the Stone Age
Primus
Radiohead
Deftones (or any of Chino's side projects)
Anything with Mike Patton
Neil Young
David Gilmour
Roger Waters
Tony Banks
Anything that any of my jazz favorites release
When and If they ever come: Tool and Peter Gabriel

 

Voivod is it for me. Every other artist has disappointed me to the point where I gotta make sure I care enough before I plunk down the bread for their latest.

That said, Voivod disappointed me considerably with Negatron when it came out. This is mostly because vocalist Snake was missing. But somehow I bought the follow-up anyway. I might have given up then if not for the fact that Snake returned for the next album, so I enthusiastically grabbed that one and everything else that came after.

I never thought they'd survive the MCA Years, but those guys just keep on going.