Except the likelihood in the case of "professional releases" isn't much higher - how about that complete cheesefest James Cameron crapped out recently?

You hate Jim Cameron. Therefore, the attachment of his name to a product sends a signal to you that the product is bad, regardless of the ungodly price people are lining up to pay at the theaters. Again, there are many other--and better--market signals than price.

- and once again, as soon as you decide not to look at something for whatever pretentious reason you happen to come up with (how detrimental can "investing" the time of 5-15 minutes into checking out some music track you don't know much about, really be?),

did you listen to any of it? Whuddaya think? Did you put it on your iPod? did you rate it 5 stars? Did you tell your friends about it? Does it make you wanna hear the same song twice?

you automatically have no valid opinion on it.

You'll notice I never ventured an opnion on any of the music he posted. How could I? I never listened to it! (I never even bothered to remember the act names.)

By going the easy root of shielding yourself from "probably mediocre" experiences, you deprive your position of any substance. Ironic? Well, that's life.

I never took a position requiring textual substantiation. It's strictly an abstract economical principle I'm illustrating.