 | Are You Experienced by The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $4.84 Considered by many to be the greatest guitar player who ever lived. He earned this title from merely 3 albums. He was truly a visionary and could have done so much more.
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 | Nirvana by Nirvana
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $3.66 Maybe the ultimate music tragedy because of the self-inflicted nature of Kurt Cobain's death. They only managed to release three full length albums before Kurt's demons got the best of him.
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 | Buddy Holly - Greatest Hits by Buddy Holly
Buy used from: $7.00 The day the music died. The eternal question that will never be answered is: what would Buddy Holly have done next? He was so far ahead of his time.
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 | Exodus by Bob Marley & the Wailers
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $6.89 When it comes to reggae, there is Bob Marley, and then everyone else. How many artists can truly say they inpired an entire nation on so many levels. Died of cancer.
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 | The John Lennon Collection by John Lennon
Buy used from: $0.45 Unlike Kurt and Jimi, we got to enjoy John's company for decades. Still, you could tell he had so much more music left in him.
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 | What's Going On by Marvin Gaye
Buy new: $7.97 / Used from: $3.62 When Gaye was shot and killed by his own crazed father, a nation mourned for one of its most famous voices. The African-American community was also hit hard by the loss of one of its leaders.
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 | Sublime by Sublime
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $2.77 Sadly, Bradley Nowell will never know how popular his band became after his drug related death. Sublime was a truly original band that could've been so much more.
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 | Who's Next by The Who
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $3.79 Keith Moon just may have been the craziest, yet best drummer in the history of rock.
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 | Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble: Greatest Hits by Stevie Ray Vaughan
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $1.70 One reason Vaughan's death was so tragic was that it came at a time when he had just reclaimed his life from alcoholism. Easily one of the greatest blues guitarists ever.
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 | Houses of the Holy by Led Zeppelin
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $5.66 It can be argued that Led Zeppelin had passed their prime at the time of John Bonham's death, but that doesn't dimish the tragedy that "led" to another tragedy: the final breakup of Zep
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 | Highway to Hell by AC/DC
Buy used from: $3.67 Although AC/DC went on to superstardom without him, Bon Scott represented everything the band was about. He is an example of something positive coming out of a tragedy: he inspired Back In Black.
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 | Janis Joplin - Greatest Hits by Janis Joplin
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $2.50 I never cared for her music too much, but I realize what she meant to both music and women. She was the female voice of blues and rock n' roll.
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 | L.A. Woman by The Doors
Buy used from: $1.19 Because of drugs and alcohol, Jim Morrison had reached the point where he was no longer a productive artist, but that doesn't make his death less of a tragedy.
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 | Living Room Suite by Harry Chapin
Buy new: $8.96 / Used from: $2.99 Harry Chapin's death in a auto accident silenced one of the best storyteller's the music world had seen. Not only a wonderful musician, he was also a wonderful man that wrote with a message in mind.
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 | Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd by Lynyrd Skynyrd
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $8.00 Another band that has carried on despite tragedy, only to never be the same. When several founding members died in a plane crash, one of greatest voices of southern rock was silenced, Ronnie Van Zant.
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 | Eat a Peach by The Allman Brothers Band
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $6.36 The Allman Brothers have carried on for 30 years without founding brother Duane, leaving only 1 actual Allman brother, but countless spiritual "brothers". Inspired the epic Skynyrd song Free Bird.
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 | Nuf Said by Kai Winding & J.J. Johnson
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 Shannon Hoon died of an OD after only 2 albums. Their sophomore wasn't too great, but their debut was one of the better albums from the 90's. They had so much potential.
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 | Selena - Greatest Hits by Selena
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $7.09 Again, I am not a fan of her music, but I realize her importance and that fact that she her career was cut short before she ever realized her full potential. Inspired a movie based on her life.
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 | Mother's Milk by Red Hot Chili Peppers
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $5.89 Had Hillel Slovak not died and given Anthony Kiedis and Flea wake-up calls to clean up their lives, chances are the the RHCP would be just another footnote in rock n roll rather than a defining member
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 | Apostrophe (') by Frank Zappa
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $9.77 Frank Zappa is the one of 2 members of this list that died of natural causes (cancer). He may have made countless albums, but I guarentee you that he had more coming.
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 | Grace by Jeff Buckley
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $2.28 Buckley's only true album, Grace, was a modern masterpiece. He drowned in the Mississippi at such a young age, with so much music left to be made.
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 | Mother Love Bone by Mother Love Bone
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $2.36 Another death that ended up inspiring something good: Temple of the Dog, a union of Pearl Jam and Soundgarden came together as a tribute to lead singer Andrew Wood.
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 | Jailbreak by Thin Lizzy
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $2.88 Phil Lynott's death in 1986 signaled the end of one of the most underappreciated bands of classic rock.
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 | This Is Spinal Tap by Spinal Tap
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $3.71 The tragic history of Spinal Tap drummers is well documented. With causes of death ranging from bizarre gardening accidents to spontaneous combustion, this has been the unluckiest position in rock.
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 | Appetite for Destruction by Guns N' Roses
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $1.24 The band that owned the 80's fell apart when Axl Rose started to crack. He fired the rest of the band and became a recluse...what's that? he's still alive? are you sure?...could've fooled me
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