CDs purchased:
Digital album downloads:
CDs from LaLa swaps:
Digital singles downloaded:
Live shows attended:
|
04
86
-
-
50
30
|
05
76
-
-
38
26
|
06
50
44
69
63
36
|
07
64
70
28
22
35
|
08
62
65
11
38
44
|
09
101
50
7
60
35
|
10
59
12
-
22
35
|
11
73
13
-
58
36
|
12
48
12
-
37
28
|
13
58
11
-
28
32
|
14
37
12
-
39
44
|
15
43
1
-
14
38
|
16
31
2
-
17
38
|
Another year, another set of data. Mostly, I see a continuation of the previous trend -- now that I subscribe to a digital music service (Google Play Music All Access/YouTube Red), I buy fewer CDs. But if you include the $10/month that I spend for the subscription, that would bring my total spending roughly in line with what I was spending on CDs in earlier years (2009 was an outlier -- I bought a lot of Bach cantatas on CD that year!).
I still buy the music that I really like on CD, or in high-resolution downloads. This year, I bought the new Radiohead as a download, for example. I also bought a bunch of individual songs in traditional lossy formats, including a bunch from Die Antwoord and LCD Soundsystem. Those are songs I like, but where the potential improvement in audio quality wasn't enough to get me buying the whole albums on CD.
The biggest challenge to my music consumption is finding enough time to really sit down and just listen. I'm probably not the only audiophile who should probably spend a lot more money and energy optimizing for time, rather than for audio quality.
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