There's a bit of distance with most of the other artists you're admiringly though, they're no longer profiting directly from their despicableness. Admire Clapton's art when he's in the ground.
Many people and cultures believe in not speaking ill of the dead. Then we’re left with vomitous odes to shitty people whose greatest contribution to the world was dying and leaving it without them.
There should be a ‘don’t speak overly well of the dead’ rule too.
Nope, but they're not gonna be directly making money from your admiration anymore, their estate might but you can judge that separately, or only listen to pirates and bootlegs and think about what a cunt they are afterwards.
There's a bit of distance with most of the other artists you're admiringly though, they're no longer profiting directly from their despicableness. Admire Clapton's art when he's in the ground.