I suspect that it has more to do with sales than any crime.

I can't see that. I would have though that Lostprophets albums would easily outstrip Gary Glitter's sales.

Their final album was released just last year and made it to number 9 on the UK Album charts and Number 1 on the UK Rock Album Charts.

I doubt any of Glitter's work has dented any form of chart for some time now.

It just seems rather arbitrary really - if they're going to remove Lostprophets from sale for clearly obvious reasons, they should at least be consistent.

I have not got rid of any of my Judas Priest albums on which Dave Holland plays.

Was about to say exactly the same thing - til I noticed you posted five minutes earlier. Screaming For Vengeance still my fave Priest album - regardless of what the drummer on that album has been imprisoned for since.

I'm a HUGE fan of Lostprophets. I've been a fan since 2004 and my husband since 1999/2000, we actually met at a Lostprophets gig back in 2004 and have seen them live 20+ times between us, following their tours round the country.

Every song, album and show holds a memory for us, it's really difficult to not still feel those emotions when thinking of their music. It'll always mean something, but unfortunately it's now tainted.

We've not listened to their music since his arrest. I was looking at some tracklistings on their albums just yesterday and remembering how great some of their records are and what a damn travesty it is that their legacy is now being removed from all memory.

I know there's a massive amount of people who haven't heard of Lostprophets, but they were majorly influential on the British rock scene, paving the way for so many other Welsh bands who are doing so well now. What a damn shame for the other 5 talented members of the band whose years of success and hard work is now being hidden away. Lee Gaze is one of the most talented guitarists around, yet no one will give a shit about that now.

I do want there to come a time when I add it back to my ipod, not just yet though. Maybe next year once he's been sentenced. Must admit, it is even more difficult that it's his vocals on the songs, I guess if he were the drummer it'd be easier to ignore the pangs of disgust and disbelief when you hear his voice.

Start Something is still one of the best rock albums of all time. Every song is excellent.

Or Burzum. Obviously, being a murdering, white supremacist neo nazi, isn't a problem for them.

thats really sad that precious memories are now tainted in this way...

You have to feel sorry for the other band members. They haven't just lost a career, their entire legacy has been decimated. They'll never be played on the radio again.

royalties usually go to a publishing company, which can be sold or sell its rights. gary sold his publishing years ago, although i think the daily fail miss this on purpose so they can write an article every few months about how much money he will get when someone in america covers his song on tv or something

Well this is it - they've had a successful career pulled from underneath them. It's not like they can continue to earn royalties from their work as I imagine nobody will ever want to use any of the music in any form if it means Watkins will earn any money from it.

The rest of the band should now call themselves Lost Profits.

But this only matters if the music in some way advocates white supremism or nazism which is the point I was trying to make above.

I love Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground, the song 'Heroin' is beautifully descriptive and insightful about what is at least low level criminal activity irrespective of whether Lou was busted or not. No one would suggest that isn't worth listening to I presume?

The difficulty I have is with an artist who might actually advocate paedophilia in their work which is the problem I have with the Gary Glitter song.

Honestly i dont care

No matter what the crime is it wont make me enjoy their songs any less when i press play

Vince Neil from Motley Crue killed a guy while drunk driving he got 30 days in jail and +a fine( got out after 15 days for good behavior) no one cared and the band went on to sell millions and tour arena for decades

I believe he's out of jail now.

brilliant!

"No one cared"? I find that hard to believe.

I think the Lost Prophet situation is slightly different though... Whilst he was drunk driving, it was an accident, he didn't set out to do that... Ian Watkins though, different story.

It's so sad when this happened, because it taints the music for the fans and also completely ruins everything for the remaining members of the band.

I feel really sorry for them. And while I'm no fan, I also feel sorry for Ferne Cotton - she's dragged into every single article about him as well.

I've heard people say. How on earth did the band not know something dodgy was going on as in the report I read fans actually found awful stuff on his computer . So surely band members would have known about the porn too?

Im sure the BBC wont play them anymore, the irony of the BBC and their statue above broadcasting house by a guy that wrote in his own book about raping his daughters.

We can't possibly know that.

Apparently Watkins had distanced himself from the rest of the band in recent years, there's an article about it by a music journalist on the BBC website today:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-25120687

So it's entirely plausible that the rest of the band had no clue what he was up to when he wasn't with them, there's certainly no reason to think that they'd know about things like what was on his computer.

I hadn't really thought about it before reading that article but from the twice that I met the band... in 2004, they were all on a night out together and seemed in really good spirits, but by the second time in 2006 he wasn't even with them.

There could be any number of reasons for him not being there I suppose, but maybe he'd started distancing himself even then.

I was talking to my girlfriend about the case and watched a couple of their videos to remind her who they were. After the first album they became quite cheesy musically, and it was the start of rock musicians looking like hairdressers which I was never a fan of. In fact I was quite pleased by the BBC website's reporting of the case where they mentioned how little they were respected by the music press due to the softening of their music and their contrived image, the BBC putting the boot in one last time.

Back to the original question, I think it would turn a few heads of people that were familiar with them if you were blasting their songs out of your car stereo. If you like a song, you like a song though, and it's up to the individual if they can divorce the music from the person.

I'm sure I know very little about what my work colleagues get up to behind closed doors, no matter how friendly we are. The same could probably be said for my friends. And I've never gone routing through anyone's laptop uninvited.