I was going to ignore these posts, but there's just too much wrong with them. Just because fans, media, etc think that the album was great. Sales don't mean shit because quite frankly, ATYCLB and HTDAAB were quite safely marketed for the press and sales.
There was no real balls in the making of either album, which is why it's reasonable to say that both were bland, because quite frankly, the press, majority of fans or whatever the hell can suck my dick. Record sales don't mean a thing when it comes down to the actual music, because we not all of us perceive music the same, which is the beauty of music.
In the end, commercial sales mean absolutely nothing, because if you listen to a record and think it's shit, then it's shit, not because it has low sales... that's just hopping on the bandwagon.
The amount of stars an album is given is completely irrelevant... and for fucks sake, it's Rolling Stone. Why not express your own opinion with having to use the word of the press? Critics aren't the ones who judge how good the music is, that would be the listener.