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Title: Quit While You're Ahead
Review: Marilyn Manson probably should have quit music after his crowning achievement, Antichrist Superstar. At least that way the Mechanical Animals embarassment would never happened. Golden Age of Grotesque is proof that Manson at the very least should have called it quits after Holy Wood. Everything here is derivative, not just of Manson's past music but the themes of other performers today. It's pretty obvious that this is the artist wallowing in his self-magnificence and nothing to please the fans who have put Manson where he is today. Buy it if you have a compulsion to own every Manson recording, but even then I'd get it used. Of course, this album sounds like it's been pretty used already, and not in a fun way.
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