quoted 6 lines On Mon, 18 Mar 1996, Tamara Renee Ross (Deano) wrote:> On Mon, 18 Mar 1996, Tamara Renee Ross (Deano) wrote:
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> > Here are my "Stats" for this year:
> > January 1996: $739.85
> > February 1996: $524.67
> > March 1996 (present): $438.19
and Julius anthony Martinez wrote on Tue, 19 Mar 96 04:00:11 GMT :
quoted 8 lines Wow...and I thought I spent a lot on music. Are you a DJ? How in the> Wow...and I thought I spent a lot on music. Are you a DJ? How in the
> world do you find the time to listen to $500-600 worth of music a month?
> That's at least 25 CD's/LP's a month. Do you play things once or twice then
> file them away? :-) I sometimes end up doing that because I have too many
> things to listen to. I've collected around 2000 pieces over the years
> and haven't listened to 2/3 of them in 1-2 years. Some things longer...
> As a result I've become more conservative in my buying but still spend
> at least $150 per month average (US dollars).
The most remarkable thing to me is that he know _exactly_ how much he's spent!
I could roughly estimate that I spend between 3 to 400 UKP per month on music,
which is in the same ballpark. Thats around 30% of my income, and twice my
accommodation costs, the payment on my car, or my pension contribution. A
proper weekend trip round my 3 favourite stores usually renders me over a
hundred pounds poorer, and that happens 2 or 3 times a month. Extra trips into
the crappy HMV near where I work, mail orders and internet trades etc add
another 50 - 100 per month at a guess.
And since you asked him, I'm not a DJ per se, but I am a bedroom DJ and my
primary leisure activity is listening to music, either for its own sake or in
th form of mixing. I set a timer on my hi-fi to wake me with a tape each
morning. I always play music in the car. I get in at least 2 hours listening
(and often nearer 5) each night if I don't go out. I have around 3000 items and
I too have a lot (I mean a LOT) of stuff that hasn't been listened to for a
long time. But most of it I would not wish to part with. As for keeping up with
my purchase rate I currently have around 250-300 records on the floor where
they are still undergoing full familiarisation prior to being filed on the
shelf. The only stuff I haven't actually heard yet arrived in the post this
morning, however.
J
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