Does Anyone Else Avoid Listening to Songs from Dark Matter until Release Date?

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  • Travels With
    Travels With Posts: 624
    Sometimes I think about waiting, but then I embrace a quote from Oscar Wilde
    "I can resist anything except temptation!" -- so then I listen.  
    “I suppose our capacity for self-delusion is boundless.” ― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America
  • AA295481
    AA295481 Posts: 111
    I have only listened to Dark Matter/Running once each, I have listened to a bunch of singles throughout the years and quickly get burned out before the album drops , nothing against either, I just choose to wait until the whole album drops. It's to the point now that if I hear one on the radio, i quickly change the station. 
  • WildFly
    WildFly Posts: 215
    I think its an awesome idea not to listen before release.  Starting now after Dark Matter I am going to do just that!!
  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,240
    I am waiting. Barely listened to anything so far. I prefer to listen to the entire record. Looking forward to it.
  • pleatherman
    pleatherman Posts: 472
    The next few weeks can feel like an eternity to wait but I know this time next month, it would have gone by in a blink of an eye.  The excitement now comes from the potential contained in new Pearl Jam music.  It's a safe bet most of us wouldn't be on this forum unless their songs altered us at some point in our life.  
    And I am a full believer in the 'beholder's share" which allows the observer or listener to complete a given artwork by imparting their own perceptual experience onto it.  While many will listen to Dark Matter out of nothing more than curiosity, others might not get out unscathed. This could help explain why I tend to associate entire years based on the given album Pearl Jam released at the time.  All thanks to the power of music.
    Of course, none of which explains my compulsion to buy those Funko Pops.  
  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 98,320

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