Hope you guys are okay with me bumping this topic.
This tends to happen when an artist/band member dies, there's an influx of new listeners checking out that dead artist's material.
I noticed this a lot when Michael Jackson died. I'll admit, I picked up some MJ albums and enjoyed them a lot following his death (Thriller, Bad, Off the Wall), but the long time fans don't like this and they say stuff like "oh the only reason you're giving this a good score is because he/she is dead" or "I'm getting sick of all these new fans checking out the persons material because they died, bunch of posers".
It's like once an artist dies, their material becomes "off-limits" to new fans for some stupid reason. It's really annoying, I haven't seen that here, but I see these comments on music review sites. Amy Winehouse is the new trend.
It makes me wonder if people were like this following Hendrix and Jim Morrison's deaths.