How much did you spend on music in 2007?

[cactusmaac]

Totalling up my buys for the year, I spent about £195 ($400) on 30 CDs which isn't too different from the £164 I spent on 24 albums last year.

Total spend on tickets for concerts occurring in the year was another £200.

[Jonathan Bogart]

I would have to have a way better grasp on my personal finances than I do to figure it out.

[howyadoin]

I would have to have a way better grasp on my personal finances than I do to figure it out.Yeah, I've got no idea, either.

[MarvelKnight]

I think about $30, I only bought two this year. There's no new music to buy.

[Spike-X]

Well, just today I spent about 65 bucks. I dunno, maybe $2-300 or so for the year?

Not nearly as much as I would have liked, would be my alternative answer.

[Spike-X]

There's no new music to buy.

I beg to differ. There's been some great releases from all kinds of acts this year: Kings Of Leon, Wilco, The White Stripes, Bruce Springsteen, Ryan Adams (an album and a 7-track EP!) and so many others have all brought out some fantastic music.

You just won't hear about it through the mainstream media.

[Sanagi]

Well, if you count my trip to the Mannette Festival in West Virginia, I spent a heck of a lot... Otherwise I'm quite conservative in my spending.

[jesse_custer]

I've bought several albums this year (although none of them were 2007 releases). So I'm guessing close to $100 or slightly more.

To be honest, the majority of my "new" albums this year were data transfers from my friends' computers.

As for concerts, saw Tool for $55, which I consider a helluva deal considering the cultural destitution of my state.

[beetheb]

Honestly? $0

I suppose I'm part of the reason the Music industry is dying.

[Jessica Drew]

I couldn't tell you, but my wife sure could; her answer: too much.

[stealthwise]

$18 (after taxes) on Sevendust's Alpha.

The rest I dl'ed. I did make it up to the Foo Fighters by buying one of their shirts though, and I found it impossible to support Machine Head, as their new album was nowhere to be found and it's hard to find their merch here.

[Pepsigirl]

I'd estimate that between CDs, concert tickets, and band merchandise, I spent a little under $1000.

[twilight]

If I count CDs,concert tickets and band merchandise like PG probably $600 or so.

I buy a lot of CD's but most of them are from a discount shop and they're $10 or $15.

-Twi

[mattx110]

I beg to differ. There's been some great releases from all kinds of acts this year: Kings Of Leon, Wilco, The White Stripes, Bruce Springsteen, Ryan Adams (an album and a 7-track EP!) and so many others have all brought out some fantastic music.

You just won't hear about it through the mainstream media.
You need to get a bit less mainstream before you can condescend to the music industry. Try Harder!!!!!


anyway, maybe 50-100 bucks. I wish it were more. I bought some books on music. But it's been a slow year for me. I still have tons to listen to from previous years.

[Patient Boy]

I couldn't tell you, but my wife sure could; her answer: too much.

This applies to me as well. I'm less concerned with how much as I am with "Damn, now where am I going to put all this crap?"

[maczero]

$5 and some change.

[Pepsigirl]

I buy a lot of CD's but most of them are from a discount shop and they're $10 or $15.

$15 is a discount?!

[Your Imaginary Pal]

Four CDs from stores.(Common, Pharoahe Monch, Sam Cooke, James Brown [Live CD set])
3 CDs from the artists themselves.(Poison Pen, Marvalous, Preacher Mann[look them up they're awesome.])

probably about 80 bucks.

[Spike-X]

$15 is a discount?!
In Australia, yes.

Standard full retail for a CD album here is Aus$30, but depending where you shop, you can get most new releases from between $19-$25.

[twilight]

$15 is a discount?!

Me and Spike live in a horrible fuedal society!

-Twi

[GozertheGozarian]

One CD, about 15 dollars.

[Lord of Denial]

$0 I really don't listen to music other then that in movies and TV.

[mattx110]

$0 I really don't listen to music other then that in movies and TV.
I feel like a priest that just met his first jew.

[Lord of Denial]

I feel like a priest that just met his first jew.

What can I say.

Music does not entertain me in any way, shape or form. It bores me.

[mattx110]

What can I say.

Music does not entertain me in any way, shape or form. It bores me.
You know it's completely within your power to change that, though... women bored me too. But then I became an alcoholic.

You just need to do the musical equivalent. Read up on music history. Get some "fundamentals of harmony". Buy an instrument (piano would be nice to start as it is the most common teaching tool, and is strong harmonically, so is guitar, but it's trickier in some ways). Maybe, the Piston book. A beginning piano book involving various nursery rhymes and abbreviated classical melodies. Maybe a beatles songbook or two to get you playing some pop music that everyone can enjoy. And learn to listen!

music can totally get you high man, you just need to know how to ask the dealer.

[Lord of Denial]

You know it's completely within your power to change that, though... women bored me too. But then I became an alcoholic.

You just need to do the musical equivalent. Read up on music history. Get some "fundamentals of harmony". Buy an instrument (piano would be nice to start as it is the most common teaching tool, and is strong harmonically, so is guitar, but it's trickier in some ways). Maybe, the Piston book. A beginning piano book involving various nursery rhymes and abbreviated classical melodies. Maybe a beatles songbook or two to get you playing some pop music that everyone can enjoy. And learn to listen!

music can totally get you high man, you just need to know how to ask the dealer.


Why are you trying to change me?:o

I am one of a kind, " The man that does not like music".

[Sanagi]

What can I say.

Music does not entertain me in any way, shape or form. It bores me.

You know it's completely within your power to change that, though... women bored me too. But then I became an alcoholic.

You just need to do the musical equivalent. Read up on music history. Get some "fundamentals of harmony". Buy an instrument (piano would be nice to start as it is the most common teaching tool, and is strong harmonically, so is guitar, but it's trickier in some ways). Maybe, the Piston book. A beginning piano book involving various nursery rhymes and abbreviated classical melodies. Maybe a beatles songbook or two to get you playing some pop music that everyone can enjoy. And learn to listen!

music can totally get you high man, you just need to know how to ask the dealer.
Not if he has amusia. (http://brain.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/125/2/238)

[mattx110]

Not if he has amusia. (http://brain.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/125/2/238)
That's not entertaining at all...

[Lord of Denial]

Not if he has amusia. (http://brain.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/125/2/238)

Yeah Yeah
That's what I have, that it.

[Jonathan Bogart]

Yeah Yeah
That's what I have, that it.
I'm just wondering why you're here at all. I'm bored by superheroes, but I don't troll those boards.

[Lord of Denial]

I'm just wondering why you're here at all. I'm bored by superheroes, but I don't troll those boards.

I tend to look on every board and if I see a topic I feel like posting in I do.

That ok with you?

[mattx110]

I tend to look on every board and if I see a topic I feel like posting in I do.

That ok with you?
As long as you understand that being able to appreciate music is completely within your grasp if you want it. People think they like things because they like them. It's always a choice. Everything that goes on in our brains is a choice, and you can like getting stabbed if you attempt to understand it, and practice until you learn it. Music is a bit more pleasent. But never think "I don't like music because that's just not me". Know "music isn't something I spend my time on because I don't mind not being a part of thise centuries old culture that defines human development.

When you feel like joining the dark side, give me a call/pm.

[jesse_custer]

Music does not entertain me in any way, shape or form. It bores me.

Go you, with your iconoclastic self.

[howyadoin]

I tend to look on every board and if I see a topic I feel like posting in I do. Which prompts me to ask, why would this topic interest you, then?

Not that I mind your being here; I'm just curious.

[Gezora]

How much did I spend on music....

What.... like, money?

You must have me confused with someone who doesn't have the Internet.

[Lord of Denial]

Which prompts me to ask, why would this topic interest you, then?

Not that I mind your being here; I'm just curious.

Well I read thru it and thought it might be interest to get peoples opinions on someone who honestly does not care for music.

[mattx110]

Well I read thru it and thought it might be interest to get peoples opinions on someone who honestly does not care for music.
Heretic
Phillistine
Heathen!

Good enough for ya?:evilsmile

[Lord of Denial]

Heretic
Phillistine
Heathen!

Good enough for ya?:evilsmile

People have tried for years to get me into music, People have bought me CD's taken me to local pubs for shows etc and none of it I could get into.

Now that I think about it all my interest lie with visual mediums, I am a huge movie buff, I read 2 books a week and even write a little and read comics, I also enjoy art and architecture and auto design.


Maybe I am just wired to enjoy visual stimuli.

[mattx110]

People have tried for years to get me into music, People have bought me CD's taken me to local pubs for shows etc and none of it I could get into.

Now that I think about it all my interest lie with visual mediums, I am a huge movie buff, I read 2 books a week and even write a little and read comics, I also enjoy art and architecture and auto design.


Maybe I am just wired to enjoy visual stimuli.
Watch movies. Think, "what is that music doing in this scene?"

People can't struggle to make you enjoy something you are bracing yourself from. Whether you think you are or not, you are. I'm right. HA! If you want to enjoy music, you have every tool available to you to do it. I'm not going to say this again cause i'm getting repetitive.

[Jonathan Bogart]

Evangelists are even worse than trolls.

[Lord of Denial]

Evangelists are even worse than trolls.

Is that at me or Mattx110?

And if you think either one of us is doing any of those things you have never seen either.

[Paul McEnery]

I beg to differ. There's been some great releases from all kinds of acts this year: Kings Of Leon, Wilco, The White Stripes, Bruce Springsteen, Ryan Adams (an album and a 7-track EP!) and so many others have all brought out some fantastic music.

You just won't hear about it through the mainstream media.

All kinds of acts? They're all mainstream rawk!

(Otherwise -- yes; mad amounts of new music.)

[Paul McEnery]

Lemme see.

There's the 240 subscription to emusic (plus about 10 20 buck boosterpack purchases) = 480.

Then there's the up to Amoeba on the buy back plan. Probably another 500.

But just three or four shows this year. Bit disappointing on that front. And only one of them was good, too. Boo!

[mattx110]

Is that at me or Mattx110?

And if you think either one of us is doing any of those things you have never seen either.
Definitely me.

He doesn't get that evangelizing implies passing off false ideology in seek of social and political support.

I just want to make sure you don't go "I don't like music", and not realize that as a human being, it is within your power to change that.

[Jonathan Bogart]

He doesn't get that evangelizing implies passing off false ideology in seek of social and political support.
Words don't mean whatever we want them to. The original, and still perhaps the most common, meaning of evangelizing is "telling people the tenets of the Christian faith in order to save their souls." Any other use is a riff on that "preaching for conversion" image. The truth or falseness of the doctrine (I think you're mostly right about the benefits of being into music) doesn't come into play.

[mattx110]

Words don't mean whatever we want them to. The original, and still perhaps the most common, meaning of evangelizing is "telling people the tenets of the Christian faith in order to save their souls." Any other use is a riff on that "preaching for conversion" image. The truth or falseness of the doctrine (I think you're mostly right about the benefits of being into music) doesn't come into play.
edit: I don't like my original response here, but I feel like I still want the chance to say something snappy in response to this.


So umm... interlude while you wait, anyone get the new bryan setzer orchestra cd?

[GRANT!]

Including concerts, CDs and getting both guitars fixed...

It adds up to maybe two months rent.

Yikes.

[Josh S]

Maybe $100, but that seems high.

[Spike-X]

All kinds of acts? They're all mainstream rawk!


Yes, dear. Of course they are. Your definition of mainstream, of course, being "bands that somebody besides me has heard of".

I don't know what it's like in the US, but over here, bands like Wilco, Kings Of Leon, and Ryan Adams & The Cardinals are anything but mainstream.

[twilight]

I don't know what it's like in the US, but over here, bands like Wilco, Kings Of Leon, and Ryan Adams & The Cardinals are anything but mainstream.

I feel like KoL are mainstream but I don't think Wilco or Ryan Adams are just yet.

-Twi

[twilight]

Albums I bought this year:

The Arcade Fire-Neon Bible
Bloc Party-A Weekend In The City
Rufus Wainwright-Release The Stars
Spoon-Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
The White Stripes-Icky Thump
The Good,The Bad and The Queen
Kaiser Chiefs-Yours Truly,Angry Mob
Modest Mouse-We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank
Queens Of The Stong Age-Era Vulgaris
Ryan Adams-Easy Tiger
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists-Living With The Living
Thurston Moore-Trees Outside The Academy
The Hives-The Black and White Album
The Horrors-Strange House
Radiohead-In Rainbows
Saul Williams-The Inevitable Rise and Liberation Of Niggy Tardust

-Twi

[howyadoin]

Yes, dear. Of course they are. Your definition of mainstream, of course, being "bands that somebody besides me has heard of".

I don't know what it's like in the US, but over here, bands like Wilco, Kings Of Leon, and Ryan Adams & The Cardinals are anything but mainstream.Wilco definitely isn't. And way too many people in North America still don't know the difference between Ryan Adams and Bryan Adams.

[Spike-X]

And way too many people in North America still don't know the difference between Ryan Adams and Bryan Adams.

Man, if I hear that one more freakin' time...!!!

[twilight]

I'm suprised he hasn't taken a stage name.

-Twi

[Spike-X]

His first name is actually David.

[howyadoin]

I'm suprised he hasn't taken a stage name."Why should I change my name? He's the one who sucks."

[twilight]

"Why should I change my name? He's the one who sucks."

Yeah but Bryan Adams is famous(even if it is for sucking) while Ryan Adams is only semi-famous.

-Twi

[mattx110]

Wilco definitely isn't. And way too many people in North America still don't know the difference between Ryan Adams and Bryan Adams.
Which one is the one with the substance abuse problem again?


anyway. Kings of Leon are only semi-mainstream and wouldn't be that much if U2 didn't go "hey, you guys wanna tour with us?"

Ryan Adams waxes and wanes. Sometimes he acts more famous than he is, but he mighta been the week before. Like Beck, the instant he comes in, it feels like he has a history (maybe because of Bryan confusion).

Wilco should be mainstream. The Billy Bragg Guthrie albums were a huge deal for people like me, and I thought it crossed over a bit, but I don't really have perspective on that.

[Spike-X]

Which one is the one with the substance abuse problem again?


Neither of them. Ryan has been clean and sober for over a year now, and has been playing, with the Cardinals, some of the most amazing, face-melting shows of his career.

[mattx110]

Neither of them. Ryan has been clean and sober for over a year now, and has been playing, with the Cardinals, some of the most amazing, face-melting shows of his career.
Good for him. Last I heard he was trying to get sober. I haven't been keeping tabs that well, but he does some stuff that I like. And it might be because his hair sometimes covers most of his face, but he's less annoying of a young guitarplayer to watch/listen to than John Mayer.

[Ramiel]

Best Of David Bowie
Across The Universe Sountrack
'This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About'-Modest Mouse

That's about it really.

[DrewTheXenocide]

Hmmm... I try to keep my music spendings averaged at around ten dollars per CD, so going by that, maybe $500?

Holy shit. I spent around 500 dollars on music. Hot diggity. This is why I never add my purchase up.

Edit: On second thought, that's not completely accurate. I bought some stuff starting late '06... so more like $400 in '07. Still a lot.

[ZombieHavoc]

I buy most of my CDs used on Amazon. Also on deepdiscount.com. depends which way I can get it cheaper.

But I have no idea how much I've spent this past year. Probably a lot.