how much do you spend on music?

revival...

Just curious.

For me, it varies, but I've probably spent more on music in 2007 than other individual years. Anywhere from a meager $30 to maybe $200 a month. I probably haven't gone more than 2 or 3 weeks without buying SOME kind of music, whether it's a big expensive mail order of 10 or so new cds or a couple of cheap lps. In any case, it seems this year I've been acquiring about 15-20 new pieces of music/month, however high or low the cost.

I don't download much at all. I did a 50 free downloads thing from Emusic but cancelled it after, though I've been tempted to sign up because it would really save me a lot of money, or at least allow me to check out more music (let's be honest, it's questionable whether it would curb my other spending very much). Was just wondering about this one last night, as I was flipping through the Wire at all the interesting reviews of stuff I'll probably never hear, however cool the review makes it sound. I'd never be able to afford all the stuff that I'd want to buy, nor have the time to hear it all.

How about for you music writers? I've always been curious about how many promos you get, and what percentage of them is stuff that you actually want (or would purchase were you not to get them for free). Do you still buy a lot of music?

oink rip

believe it or not I had never even heard of Oink until the news about it week or two ago... shows how little I've downloaded.

.xls tells me average £55 a month this year.

I buy more music now than I ever have, mostly because the past year has been the first time in my life that I'm pulling a decent salary. I don't do much downloading/filesharing but I get a number of free CD's, probably roughly a quarter or a third of the new ones I've acquired in the past year (which would number somewhere in the 100-200 range). I mostly buy new, not used, so I guess you could do the math on that but I'm not going to bother depressing myself with hard figures.

i get probably 4-5 free CDs a month, usually stuff that I want or request. And then I probably buy between two and four CDs a month. So I spend probably on average $30-50 a month, I guess. Which sometimes seems like a lot, sometimes seems like very little. i download some stuff, but not a ton -- was never on oink or anything ...

i probably spend about $20 a week on music. and considering i have a couple hookups at local shops, that amounts to 4-5 new cds a week. of course, these are mostly used cds, so there are weeks when i find nothing at all. and well, also, weeks when i find about a dozen. this week: 5, so far.

On average, probably about $70 a month these days ($50/month on eMusic and $20/month on other stuff, whether physical discs or downloaded from a label's website; for what it's worth, I'm not a music critic, so I don't get free promtional discs).

Roughly $100 a month--i.e., too fuckin' much!

I've become painfully disciplined about my music spending - I'm pretty much down to $50/month or so (large emusic subscription plus a couple of recordings plus maybe one show). Nothing sounds as good as, uh, financially stable feels. Fuck, that's not even true. I feel old.

Course that doesn't count whatever I spend on my own music equipment and expenses for playing shows (which I'm lucky to break even on).

Got a mortgage now, which means... maybe £30-£50 a month on CDs, down from somewhere around £200-£400.

These days i can go months without spending a single tugrik, but by years end i'm sure i end up having spent more than ¼ million (again, in Mongolian Tugriks).

Um, probably about $50 maybe.

This month I'll probably spend £20 on music, if that.