There are two small labels whose bands I love (Constellation and Southern Lord) and I buy a lot of LPs from them, despite not owning a record player. Which is totally daft, I know
'Daft' ....such a harsh word. Perhaps 'totally bonkers'?
I buy jazz LPs from charity shops & a record shop down near where my in-laws live, occasionally from
ebay. But not vast numbers....20-30? Probably something like £100-200 a year.
Plus the occasional bit of hardware, tho' that's probably stopped for now. I've been assembling a system over the last three or four years, which has meant £30 here and £370 there, but I'm happy with what I've got now, so probably won't be buying any more kit in the near future. Oh, and I occasionally succumb to temptation and buy yet
another mp3 player. I have maybe a dozen now. They have small yellow stickies on the back saying things like 'jazz' and 'reggae/dub' and 'mine'. So much easier than menus.
. But they cost next to nothing (£15?) and that, again, is a theme that's slowed pretty much to a standstill. There's only so many mp3 players a man needs. And when he has enough that he's not sure how many he has, he probably has more than enough. (I don't pay for the actual music - it pretty much all comes from friends' collections...something like 800Gb at the last count, of which I'm probably familiar with, and actually play, maybe 40Gb.)
No, from here on in I suspect it will continue running at £100-200 a year. Unless my habits change beyond recognition.
