How much $$$ in tracks a month
Wondering what some budgets are just recently got looking over my purchase history and Geez think I have to cut back…
Mine is costing me between $100 to $500 a month.
Sadly I see why my wife’s side of it lol
Im lucky that I dont DJ professionally or else I’d spend a lot more, Currently I spend $10 to $20 per month.
I was spending about $200 but that was for vinyl. I have no wife, no kids, no payments to the ex anymore and my rent’s cheap, plus I make good money. I’ve added a lot to my production arsenal lately, so my music spending has gone way down.
IMO, you need to pare it down. I’m assuming your purchases are digital which equates to 50 - 75 songs a month at minimum perhaps more depending on the sound quality you’re buying. You don’t really get a chance to know your tunes adding that much to your collection each month IMO. I spent way too much and bought way too much when starting out and now, I don’t even like a number of those tunes that much. I’ve gotten into the habit of adding things to my cart, then coming back and re-visiting my cart a week or more later and re-listening to everything. If I still love it and not merely like it, I’ll leave it in the cart and remove the rest. I might do this one more time. With digital, you don’t have to worry about things selling out and not being available anymore. So there’s really no rush to buy everything the instant you hear it. Even with vinyl I’m finding there are very few “must haves” for me. I’m always going back to my carts and finding things have sold out, but there’s so much great music out there with some digging, it’s all good. If I do run into a must-have, I’ll pull the trigger on my cart. I’ve found this not only saves me a lot of money, it also keeps me from buying a lot of stuff that in six months, I’d rather not have wasting space in my hard drive or my record storage units.
I try to stay under 150€ for records and digital and I use the same selection methode than ImNotDedYet (I’m not alone!), only digitals I really like and records that I feel are must have.
Vast majority is back dating my catalog from 1999-2004 when I ripped all my vinyl in 2005 to MP3 I did it at 192 instead of 320 and have regretted it ever since
Think I’m at about…ooh, £120 for vinyl this month and another £20 for digital stuff. It’s been an expensive month - bunch of albums - and looks like it’s set to continue being an expensive month - bunch more albums and a few EPs I’ve been waiting for.
What the hell else am I going to spend the money on?
For digital… Use record pools. Dj city is 90 for 3 months and digitaldjpool is like 1 dollar for 5 days then 12 a month. I use both of those and get amazing amounts of music.
Anywhere between about 100-200 quid a month on records, though the Mrs is making me cut down.
Could easily spend a lot more, there’s a lot of good music coming out on the black crack.
I do have some subscriptions to dj pools… I use them for newer but for back dating and updating quality from years past is where I am spending the most I’m finding… Oh well though it’s tapered off was really bad for a bit but I’ve made more effort to consciously keep track… I agree though record pools are very reasonable just wish could back date
I spent just under $900 for all of 2013. I’m on track to spend about that same amount this year.
$500 a month is insane. under $100 here
Back when I was starting and all CD based, I had a few $500 months. But I was still “only” spending $2000 a year.
I do agree that $6000 a year on music is overboard as a “hobby.”
Depends on what music your’e looking for but there are some dj pools that have interesting old stuff. for instant beat junkies just started a pool. http://www.beatjunkies.com/
I spend about $15. A lot of my tunes come from Soundcloud.
Way less than that… when I was up in the region of 100 quid+ per month I noticed that I hardly revisited 2/3 of my music because it was, frankly, rubbish. Now I have a 2 or 3 stage filtration system of putting a track on a wishlist, then re-listening a few times before taking the plunge. It seems to work!
I spent 6 euro last month on tracks… About 99% of what I play is freely downloadable from Soundcloud or the like.
about 80 not including discounts 
same… i have a weekly podcast, so that forces me to limit my purchases to 8 new tracks (+ classic track and best of last week)
6k isnt really that crazy for a hobby. I play national level paintball in the PSP. We have 4 events a year that average $1500 per even. That average is low because one of the events is in my hometown of chicago. Plus we practice like 48 weekends a year which is minimum $55.
well over 6k.
I guess its all relative. what is crazy or expensive to one may not be for another. Not saying its not expensive. I dont ball out for work or anything. But I make it happen because I love it.
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Spending a total of $6k a year on “all things music and DJ related” is reasonable - gear, bags, cables, laptops, software, libraries, concert tickets, music, travel, clubbing, tee-shirts, etc. Heck, $6k/yr is probably low for most people when you really add up everything.
But the context was $6k for music, not for all things related to the hobby. Unlike tickets, travel, or even gear…music accumulates over time. Even if you count libraries like Komplete or Massive, and a couple pool subscriptions…spending that much year after year on music is HARD.
For the last 8-ish years, I get the mp3 version of a pool service (for 10 years before that I had the CD version). The mp3 service delivers about 75 tracks/wk. It is hard to keep up listening to that much new music…let alone being critical and working that much music into a larger set. I spend another $100-ish/mo on other music - used CDs for backcatalog music, expansion packs for Maschine, libraries or Ableton, etc.
While I can spend $500 in a month (renew the pool subscription, buy a few libraries for Ableton or Maschine), sustaining spending at $500/month over several years is HARD to do.