This is a term solely reserved for that one guy in every group who starts listening to ( and praising ) an artist only ONCE they’ve died.
Hey bro ! Did you check out that new MF doom track ? ... bro .. I’ve loved him since his early stuff, especially his underground tracks with joe trudden
John... you only found out about him since he died yesterday. Quit being a grave hunter.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)