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chas_m
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Music is still very likely to be your best value for entertainment dollar outside movie collecting. Albums and songs can be like dear friends you enjoy visiting often.
I have over 2,000 CDs but stopped buying CDs with rare exceptions a decade ago, and the CDs are in my old storage unit till I can get them (and all the other stuff) moved up here. I have another 75-100 here. Once my whole collection is back together I will start documenting it and restart buying select, collectible and/or valuable to me stuff (I need a lot more John Foxx CDs for example!) but based on what little I've documented I would say I paid an average of $8 per CD's worth of music, which I consider a good deal. In total I'm sure I've spent at least $20,000 on music over the past three decades but as many of you point out, that's not really a lot on a per-year or per-month basis.
I have no bias against digital music and have bought some but not nearly as much as the music I bought on CDs. I guess I'm just not convinced those digital tracks will be with me 30 years from now so I don't really "invest" in them (and let's be fair, a physical object is always going to be something more "invest-worthy").
Probably the same reason I don't play the stock market!
I can go along with Rockabilly Girl's sentiment, but I use Internet radio to accomplish the same thing for free. I like going outside my own collection to hear new (or new to me) stuff and don't want to pay (much if anything) for that, but I'll always buy the stuff I really love. In a way, the collection as a whole would tell anyone a great deal about me.
I have over 2,000 CDs but stopped buying CDs with rare exceptions a decade ago, and the CDs are in my old storage unit till I can get them (and all the other stuff) moved up here. I have another 75-100 here. Once my whole collection is back together I will start documenting it and restart buying select, collectible and/or valuable to me stuff (I need a lot more John Foxx CDs for example!) but based on what little I've documented I would say I paid an average of $8 per CD's worth of music, which I consider a good deal. In total I'm sure I've spent at least $20,000 on music over the past three decades but as many of you point out, that's not really a lot on a per-year or per-month basis.
I have no bias against digital music and have bought some but not nearly as much as the music I bought on CDs. I guess I'm just not convinced those digital tracks will be with me 30 years from now so I don't really "invest" in them (and let's be fair, a physical object is always going to be something more "invest-worthy").
Probably the same reason I don't play the stock market!
I can go along with Rockabilly Girl's sentiment, but I use Internet radio to accomplish the same thing for free. I like going outside my own collection to hear new (or new to me) stuff and don't want to pay (much if anything) for that, but I'll always buy the stuff I really love. In a way, the collection as a whole would tell anyone a great deal about me.
