Why you would want to put yourself thru this pain

But we have to listen because we care. We want it to be good and we want to like it but ufortunately it's not and I don't.

I only heard That's a fact partly and a few seconds of hold you back and that was enough for me to not ever wanna hear it again. Looking at it purely for myself, I indeed haven't put myself through anymore pain from it and reading enough comments about it from long time ff fans tell me more then enough about what I need to know. And I certainly am not gonna make myself more upset about it then I am enough already... I do understand though why others do listen to it, it's exactly as vivfromcov says, we do care and we want them to sound good... but for me all that remains is to play that part of their output which I loved, love and always will love. That music doesn't suddenly become worse just cos they changed and if Rossi really doesn't want me or any of other ff fans to hang on to it, then that's too damn bad for him, he recorded it and if he wanted to prevent anyone from listening to it then he shouldn't have recorded it. But what's going on inside the band right now is as far removed from the Status Quo I know and love as day and night are, as a matter of fact it has nothing to do with status quo at all anymore for me.