Maybe it's a cathartic thing, then. You release your anger and despair vicariously? Do you feel less angry after a listen?

u can use mansons music to get u pumped or calm u down. cds like holywood are very calming, were as cds like anticrist get u pumped. just like any other music.

Well, I think Lou Reed is an excellent artist...but he takes me to a place I don't want to go. His songs are brilliant, but they are not useful to me.

exactly. More often then not, Im having a bad day. No real reason normally, just mad at everything. Maybe its cause im a teenager, who knows? But I know that I dive into the harshness of the music that I listen to and kinda zone out. Hours later I dont feel like Im gonna explode.I live out all the anger through thoughts that the music invokes. Its my version of anger managment.

Exactly. Music does everything emotionally for you.