I dont think anyone really allows a band's popularity to affect their taste, I certainly dont. I judge on the music, if the music sounds good to me then I like the band, its as easy as that.
What I do think happens though is we judge other fans based on how long they have been fans for, and then judge them as fans based on that. Obviously we use ourselves as the measure by which true fandom is judged, anyone that started listening after us are bandwagon jumpers, and anyone who started listening before us are elitists.. where as we ourselves are neither lol
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