Which artists' music do you buy without audition

if it looks cool, i buy it

Sam Phillips
Tom Waits
Low
Sonic Youth
Sufjan Stevens

Albert,

Do you own the two solo E records ("A Man called E" and "Broken Toy Shop")? I believe that they are among the most perfectly realized pop albums I own. I also thought "Blinking Lights" was-by a very long measure- the best pop/rock release I heard last year.

For the record, other "auto-buys" (pop/rock division):

Don Dixon/Marti Jones
Todd Rundgren
Paul Westerberg
Marshall Crenshaw
Kid Creole
Los Lobos
and, actually, a bunch of others now that I think of it.

Goldfrapp,Bjork,Radiohead,white stripes,The raconteurs,autechre,aphextwin,Bill frisell, patricia barber,futuresoundoflondon,plaid,orbittal,catpower,toriamos,pjharvey,katebush,strokes,kingsofleon,tosca,kruderanddorfmeister and i am sure i am forgetting one. Others I read reviews, read between lines, audition, then may be buy.

Steely Dan.