Taylor Swift Super-Collectors: Meet the Fans Buying Every ‘Tortured Poets Department’ Edition, No Matter the Cost

variety.com:

Julia MacCary editor Who’s afraid of buying 30-plus “Tortured Poets Department” album variants? Whether it be the Ticketmaster debacle, her No.

1 spot on Billboard’s album chart — which she’s held for eight consecutive weeks — or the box office success of her Eras Tour movie, no one should deny the might of Taylor Swift and the Swiftie fandom.

Leading up to and following its April 19 release, the singer has been dropping multiple variants of her soul-baring “Tortured Poets Department” album — some of which have a bonus song from its surprise double-album expansion, “The Anthology” (which she has yet to release in a physical form but will surely cause a major splash once available), acoustic tracks, live renditions or voice-memo demos.

The total is nearly at three dozen, and there are almost certainly more coming. While the pop star has used this practice with past album rollouts — and it’s widespread across the music industry — this cycle, some voices on the internet have been, well, swift to get mad at all the variants.