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Joseph:
I buy music very frequently.  I absolutely love going and browsing record stores, and can lose hours in them.  When I have money to spend, and no plans to go out in the immediate future, it almost always ends up being turned into albums.  Usually half of what I buy is stuff I've already downloaded, because I like to own it.  I have a collection of some 300 or so CDs, and that number is slowly rising, though recently I have begun buying vinyl.  This past week, because there have been some great sales, especially one at my favourite record store (Scratch, which also runs a record label which has put out albums by Swan Lake, Destroyer, and Frog Eyes), I have bought ten records and a couple of CDs.  I like to think I am playing my part as best I can.  Obviously, that is not how much music I typically buy in a week though.

Hat:

--- Quote from: Johnny C on 29 Dec 2007, 01:01 ---The fact is, though, that I don't buy a whole lot of music because I get a paycheck and I kind of want to go out and do things with friends and buy other stuff and I have to pay for gas and I have to get lunch at university and since I'm working a shitty job that apparently doesn't even pay as much as it used to (I found this out tonight and I was not pleased) I manage to buy maybe two albums a month.

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I just find this kind of thing quite interesting, because Johnny, you are definately one of the more obsessive (knowledgeable? I am trying to come up with a word that doesn't make me sound like I am just being a dick here) people on the music forum, and I hear this same thing a lot from people who are very similar a lot and I find it a little bit frightening, really. I mean, I took out a second job so I could afford to buy more than one album a week, and I am nowhere near the biggest music nerd on this forum by a long shot. I think its just a shame (and I'm not saying you're doing this johnny, its just I've noticed it goes hand in hand with the 'I can't afford to buy many records but I totally would if I had more money' mentality) that people really don't seem to collect music they way they used to.

Nowadays I can't shake the feeling that its very commonplace nowadays to treat buying a record as less of an experience of acquiring something you love, and more of a political statement. I keep hearing people say "I only buy records from independent record stores" or "I only buy records on independent labels" or "I just go to the shows and buy straight from the band" and theres good arguments for all those things, but people just seem so proud of it. It's much easier to acquire an album from a major label on the internet, and it'll teach the big record companies a lesson!

I guess I am saying maybe things have just gotten kind of complicated and I guess I'm slightly bothered that a group of people who profess to and do really seem to love music as much as a lot of people here do, would consider buying new music anything but a very high priority.

voidSkipper:
I'm started to get more and more fucked off when I buy albums, and they can't be ripped to MP3 because of some stupid content protection. If I fork out for someone's CD, the last thing I want to do is waste my extremely limited bandwidth on downloading an illegal copy of what I /just/ bought.

Der Turm, der Leute frass:
I never download music, i oly buy it.
there's no good record store around here, so I buy it over the internet. but whenever I have the possibility to go to a good record store I spend many hours and lots of money there.
I've spent more than 4700 $ on CDs this year, I guess that's pretty much.

valley_parade:
I buy used vinyl. Occasionally I'll buy a CD (I think the last CD I bought was something from AtDI).


Speaking of buying music, I have an EP for sale....

Just sayin'.

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