FoK wrote:

Senor Barborito wrote:

Fussbett wrote:



This brings up another concept I always find amusing. Remember bands like the Gin Blossoms? They were all over the goddamn place at one point. Was anyone a Gin Blossoms fan? No. You could never track one down! Who's buying that boring shit? I developed a theory that some of these company/radio-pushed bands had no actual fans but instead were successful because of birthday and Christmas presents. That 300,000 unit sales figure is all from well-meaning relatives buying safe gifts for receipients who say "thanks", and listen to the album's singles twice before leaving it in the bottom of their CD collection forever. Thus, once the record company stops their money-backed push of said band, they disappear off the face of the Earth. No fan base.

Actually I bought a Gin Blossoms album at age 13, because compared to the Christian crap my parents, relatives, and friends were foisting on me at the time it was actually (comparatively) pretty damned good.

I fucking loved them at age 14. That was one of my "learn to play guitar!" albums (along with Nevermind and Facelift.) We can't be held responsible for what we liked when we were young and more hormonally-influenced.