To me, bad is boring and boring is bad. Both are subjective anyway.
I’m sure that not every music lover thinks the Shaggs are a sensation The ones that do like them hear the sincerity coming through despite the total incompetence of the performances. Until NRBQ convinced their record label to reissue the lone Shaggs LP, the vast majority of people who lived more than 50 miles away from where the Wiggins sisters lived would never had heard of them. The same is true of the recordings of plenty of local bands.
Frank Zappa, Kurt Cobain, gave them some light.
The point is, they are not good, but built a following because of that, in fact a Brittany Anjou a composer dedicated a part of her life to transcribing their music, yes transcribing it is quite impressive, finding all of the sisters, re-recording a song if they had actual musical training, and the actual song is a typical song you would hear from that era, so it's safe to say if they weren't so bad and were given actual musical training they would nothing more than a one hit vinyl record you would see uploaded on youtube and in the bottom of a thrift store or some vinyl shop today, but who knows maybe they would of been big. Also they are in a way a sleeper hit, they are outside music that gain some following way after their time, of course no one when they were performing care, they were just a very bad unfortunate band, but with likes of Cobian giving them some sort of following and other musicians who claim they are "good" it created an interesting idea and some experimenting. From my understanding they inspire and were just some part of the idea of raw music and outsider music. So I think for me it's safe to say if you enjoy music, especially outsider music similar to the likes of Daniel Johnston, Wesley Willis you most likely have heard of the Shaggs, and if you someone into diverse music collecting would enjoy them or at least owning something by them.
I don't mean to debate with you, and truthfully not sure what the point is, while I did say "every" it as a hyperbole, and I do not like generalizing but this is the internet, no one should take anyone's post seriously without a citation from credible sources, it's all our opinion.
So even though the Shaggs were "bad" they for sure have made a name for themselves in the world of outsider music, I would argue if you enjoy music deeply and especially are into underground, raw, music you would enjoy the Shaggs.
