I spend $0 to $20 or $30 per month, its not like they are releasing any new 80s New Wave, and alot of the indie rock is usually promo stuff.
BTW I’m part of the djcity pool and that rubbish you call top 40 and hip hop pays for its self and then some. I play 1 or 2 private gigs every month or so @ $400 - $500/night to play all the radio/mtv hits is cake. They way I look at it is to fund your music habit you have to play music that you might not like.
I played L.A. hardhouse at house parties in the 90s to help me pay for my gabber.
Anywhere between 0 and 50$ a month online, depends what comes out really.
Now if I go home to visit my parents and end up going to the used music store I can’t leave that place without buying like 3-5 CDs that are usually 5-8$ ea.
It all depends when I have money or a gig lol. But when I have a gig I’ll usually buy $30 worth of music for it, and without a gig I spend about $5 a week.
Before my issue with beatport came up I was buying roughly 40-60 dollars a week of stuff off beatport, but now I probably will completely stop all that and only get what I can’t get anywhere else from them and use juno for the rest.
I personally find that Juno has a better selection a lot of times for some of the more “hard to find” tracks that I’m looking for, at least Dubstep wise. I like beatport and approve of it’s simple and quick format, but I’ve been searching for a particular track on there and have to to go to Juno more and more often as of late.
diging out this old thread cause i’m interested on where you spend your money and how much. at the moment i spend about 60$ per month, mostly beatport, sometimes itunes (just found a compilation of 100 techhouse tracks for like 10$), and some of it for actual cds from the store. got about 350 tracks that i know well and like to play in the genres deephouse, techhouse, techno and a little minimal. but i keep finding good tunes and keep spending money since i’m still building my library. do you guys buy only new tunes or also some older gems? i keep finding older acid house/techno stuff which i really like but not really go well with my new tunes
also, does anyone know of a site similar to last.fm and pandora where they recommend you music based on what you listen to in itunes? both these services aren’t available in my country…
I’m just in the process of re-building and filling gaps in my collection…between beatport, record stores and various other sites, I am probably between £100-150/month, sometimes less, but rarely more…
Probably going to join something like CDPOOL this month too. Unless someone can advise otherwise!
I’ve always collected music so I don’t mind the expense
i’ve spent so much money on music it’s kind of preposterous, i don’t even want to say the amounts with vinyl and cds. i calmed down quite a bit when i started buying digitally, putting maybe around $50-100 a month on average.
currently i spend almost no money on buying music, outside of an occasional release i really want. i have so much stuff from the past and there are a lot of great artists/labels putting out free tracks so i just dig for those. though if a person is cool and puts up a good amount of high quality releases for free, i will usually donate some money to them for being so awesome.
Probably about 40-50 euro a month. Ive only recently gotten into trance and now moving into techno and got a lot of Complilations, (for example in search of sunrise etc) which were very good value for money. Now im starting to just get individual tunes but i have to say I find Beatport to be very expensive. 7 Digital and even itunes normally sell for about 1 euro a track but Beatport is at least 1 50 a track and sometimes 2 50, which i think is scandalous. i know the argument will be that the music is more up to date, but I still think its a bit of a rip off. Plus even buying a full release the overall price usually is not far off just adding up the price of the individual tracks.
I don’t play gigs any more, so it varies a lot. 99% of the stuff I buy is physical formats as I don’t like spending money on digital downloads unless that’s the only way to get a particular track. In the last year, there were a couple of weeks where I spent over £500, lots of weeks where I bought nothing, and lots of weeks where I spent between £10 and £50.
How does emusic works regarding legality of mixing them live? Do they give you a paper which says you’re entitled to those tracks? Here in Portugal we have to go to the gigs with all evidences that we bought that specific track.
This question applies to other services that are subscription based.
I’m starting to build my tracklist and since it’s a big thing around here, I have to be careful.
