For me, it's hard once I've picked up an album by a band. What I buy from them following will likely depend on that album, fair or not. If I like the singles but the rest of the album fails for me, I likely won't buy a second album by said band, unless it comes highly recommended. For the most part, that's the reason I only have one album by a particular band, although there is
some variance.
Atreyu- Lead Sails Paper Anchor: An ex-girlfriend and current friend of mine(and my wife's Maid of Honor
) is a hug Atreyu fan, and dragged me along to see them in concert shortly after this was released in 2007. Neither her husband or my wife even remotely like them, so it left just the two of us. They were great in concert, but very few of their songs are ones I've listened to more than once. I haven't listened to this album more then 2-3 times, so why would I buy another album by them?
Better Than Ezra-Deluxe: Other then
At The Stars, all of the songs I like from BTE are on
Deluxe. Why buy more?
The Bravery-The Son and The Moon: I believe I went about this one backwards, as I bought their second CD first at the recommendation of a friend. I had heard a few songs off their debut album and wasn't impressed, but I liked several songs off this CD that I for some reason thought was
Modest Mouse. 
It wasn't good enough for me to buy anything else they've put out, but there are a few songs here I really liked.
Blindside- About A Burning Fire: The titular track, Sleepwalking, and Eye of The Storm were the only songs off this CD I thought weren't garbage. They're fun live and play a great acoustic set, but their studio work doesn't impress me at all.
Death Cab For Cutie-
Plans: I bought this CD for a few songs, but it's frustrating when those three songs are the only songs on a 13 track album you enjoy. I've bought a few singles since, but another album is out of the question.
Dispatch- Silent Steeples Mark this one as a band I've overlooked, as 90% of what I've heard from them is damn good. A mistake I'll be certain to correct, as I'm a huge Dispatch fan.
Evanescence- Fallen: This album was good, but even the singles I heard off their following work were awful. Popular opinion was that it was when Ben Moody, who wrote most the lyrics and songs, left the band that things dipped in quality. Whatever the reason, I've had no desire to own anything they put out since.
Kanye West- College Dropout: Unless you count
Watch The Throne, this is the only one by Kanye that I own. The arrogance was apparent even here, but it became unbearable for me following.
Evans Blue- The Melody and The Energetic Nature of Volume:I freaking loved this album, then the band had a falling out with the lead singer, and their music was never the same. There's a single here and there that I'm a fan of, especially a new one called
Warrior, but on most songs I don't care for the voice of the new lead singer.
Flyleaf- Memento Mori: I think there was one song on their third album I liked upon sampling it, if I'm being generous. Their first album had good songs in
Sorrow,
All Around Me, and
Fully Alive, but nothing that made me need to own it. Momento Mori was brilliant, and I liked almost every song on it, but their other two albums only had a few songs I could get into, certainly not worth the price.
Five Finger Death Punch- War Is The Answer: Few things annoy me more then a band whose singer can sing, yet chooses to scream most the album. Such is the case with FFDP, as I bought the CD for two single's I really liked,
Far From Home and
Walk Away. Other then these, I didn't much care for the album, and while I bought the single
Remember Everything, I left their newest album alone.
Jon Lajole- I Kill People:A complete comedy album, but Jon Lajole is truly a funny dude. I bought the album after hearing
Birthday Song and
Vaginal Hubrus on
The League, a show on which Lajole co-stars. But Lajole has something of an expiration date, as listening to his music more then 3- 4 times gets old. Other then this album, I've bought the singles I really like, and haven't touched the rest.
Lykke Li- Wounded Rhymes: I love Li, she's a gorgeous girl with a unique voice. But I wasn't aware of her other then
Wounded Rhymes, and upon sampling her initial album, I passed. She improved leaps and bounds from it to her second.
Regina Spektor-Eet: Outside of
Bobbing For Apples and
Fidelity, every Spektor song I'm a fan of is on this album. It's a great album, however, it's just disappointing that nothing she put out before or after was worth a purchase.
SR-71-Tomorrow: Until I checked their discography to see why they fell off the face of the earth, I thought this was the only album they ever made. This was very good, I felt, but nothing that would make me rush out to buy something else. I'll sample, and go from there.
Switchfoot- The Beautiful Letdown: I have something off of every Switchfoot album, but this was the only one that I bought the entire entity of from Jon Foreman and co. My preferred style of music has changed over the years, and Switchfoot on the whole no longer is it. But every once in while, TBL is still a feel-good listen.
The Used- In Love and Death: I don't know that I'd even own a
Used album had I not gotten it free off of EBay with a Foo Fighters album I had ordered several years ago. It's not a terrible album by any means, but it falls strictly in the category of "Pick and Choose", as there are plenty of songs I skip off the CD.
I'm sure there are more, but that would require me to break out my entire collection, something I have little desire to do right now. I'm pretty eclectic with my taste in music, so much so that it can vary within the very same album.
