Learn to play that keyboard right away, and start learning the technical details of how your tools work. You'll find a way to make a career out of music somehow if you do both those things.

(I have no idea whether this is generally applicable, but knowing what I know now, much later in life, I'm confident it would have applied to my younger self.)

I mean there are several factors at play here:

• Celebrity deaths draw attention to their work, especially with the kind of reverence for the dead we have in many cultures. An artist that dies popular will pretty much always become even more popular as a result of their death.

• An art work's legacy can keep growing for a long time once it starts, and the artist's death doesn't prevent this. If anything it's the opposite, given the point above.

• We experience art relative to the surrounding culture, and sometimes the culture isn't a good fit until long after the work is created. See Van Gogh, for example, whose work wasn't really appreciated during his lifetime. This happens to lesser extents with many popular artists, which means people start appreciating parts of their back catalogues later on when the artist might already have died.

If that happens yearly and your headphones aren't crappy quality, that means you are rough with them, even if you're not aware of it. (I tend to get the same problem eventually, and at least in my case it's entirely because I'm too rough with the cable and bending it in unintended ways since I've got my phone in my pocket. It might feel natural for us to place that level of strain on our cables, but they usually aren't made for it so we're actively damaging them by doing so.)

Also, unless you're using quiet headphones that need the volume on full blast to get a reasonable level, do yourself a favor and turn it down a bit. Listening to pretty much any music at full volume for extended periods will give you permanent hearing damage eventually, let alone something inherently loud like Metal. If you love music enough to listen to it this much, you really don't want to do that to yourself. You will permanently reduce your quality of life, and it will be entirely your own fault. That's not fun to live with.

Edit: and btw I love the HD25 for Metal specifically. They're the best headphones I've had for the genre, whether it's heavier stuff with intense bass like Meshuggah or rockier, gritty stuff like Motörhead's Ace of Spades album.

Not sure if they fit your criteria for looks, but the Sennheiser HD25 can take a beating, and they sound good.

How are the headphones only lasting you a year, though? Are you breaking the outer parts or playing so loud they start rattling eventually?

Yeah, I came here to say Beethoven. This cover of the third movement of his Moonlight Sonata makes the case better than I could with words.

Wow I don't think I've seen this song mentioned anywhere since The Source reviewed the album back when it came out. Much nostalgia.

He's been dead over 40 years. Nobody is supporting him financially by listening to his music. That's very much relevant to the conversation.

>Seeing as Lennon suffered no financial consequences for his actions and nobody stopped listening to The Beatles upon that information getting out, yet people are advocating for all above in case of Kanye, there is.

That's not a double standard. It's about half a century of cultural changes.