On Fri, 15 Mar 1996, D. Ross, esq. wrote:
quoted 14 lines My friends often ask me how I can afford to buy new albums each week> My friends often ask me how I can afford to buy new albums each week
> given that I'm the cliche starving student, etc., etc. I can't, but what
> the hell....I need to hear the stuff.
>
> My question: what percentage of your income to you think you blow
> (note the extremly negative connotation) on music each week? If you are
> a DJ, at least it could be rationalized as a necessary cost of doing
> business. What about the rest of us idiots.....is it rational to spend
> half our cheques on new aural treasures??
>
> HMM?
>
> Dave.
>
When I was a student in Leicester, graduated last July, I must have spent
about a third of my income on records. Didn't eat very regularly but
survived reasonably intact.
Tim
PS Don't have hardly any money to spent on music I want now. Music isn't
very cheap here in Chile.