Was curious how your music consumption has changed due to the pandemic. How did your spending compare to previous years?
Spent £0 on live music, CD or vinyl on 2021 which is the same as the previous 5 years. Six years since I spent money on live music, ten years for CDs and twenty-two years for vinyl.
I’d quite like to go to a gig some time but probably not going to for a few years unless covid disappears as a concern.
I was fortunate enough to have more spending money for a while, so rather than buying gig tickets, I caught up with buying records. Now that things have opened up and everything costs more, I’ve got a few gigs lined up and very little money for records.
Oh, and I finally noticed Spotify had a slightly cheaper option for just 2 people, rather than the family option or whatever I had been on for years, so I saved £2 per month with that.
Streaming: £120 for the year (-)
Live music: Probably less than £50 for gigs actually attended in 2021 (-80%)
Vinyl: £Ridiculous due to boredom, consistent NHS income (plus various pandemic related bonuses) and lack of dependents (+500%)
CDs: £0 - haven’t bought a CD since 2010 m8 (-)
Closer to 2 years since pando stopped possibility of travel/gigs here tbh. That aside…
No decent live music anywhere near where I live so even pre era chance for live music was very rare.
Quit streaming over a year ago so zero cost on that.
Have bought more digital music (via bandcamp) and a few tapes as well, think this is a reflection of my changing music tastes but might be some of those artists can no longer afford vinyl or sell CDs. Also pay about €100 a year for Roon.
Still bought lots of records, both new and second hand, but a few less than last year. Sold a fair few records as well this year so think I’m only about +50 overall for my collection this year.
Bought 1 cd.
Hadn’t heard of this before. Does it give you high res versions of audio you already down or…? Not sure I understand
I reckon I average out around £20-30 on CDs and digital downloads a week since the pandemic started. Music keeps me sane and I like to keep the people who make the music going. No gigs since 2019 but have two coming up in March 2022. Only streaming I do is via Bandcamp or YouTube. I don’t believe in the fairness of revenue share on Spotify etc.
1st place: vinyl - restored a record player last Christmas and have been buying records since
2nd place: live music (purchased four tickets for Low next year)
3rd place: streaming (Spotify)
4th place: CDs (nil)
However much Spotify costs x 11 and one MF DOOM vinyl that I bought last week and Rough Trade that was £28 I think. Could easily have been more, though.
Not been to a live show in nearly 2 years. Last one was Pharoahe Monch in Jan '20.
I bought tickets for 3 gigs but they are all early next year. But because I live in a village in the middle of nowhere, attending those gigs will end up costing me a fair old whack. I attended one gig this year in my village but I got the tickets for free as it was the day before my birthday
Was paying for Spotify family and YouTube premium but have now cancelled both.
Bought half a dozen new vinyl and half a dozen second hand very cheap.
Totally fucked my finances so won’t be spending much on anything for a while.
1st place Vinyl massively went through the roof I think over the last 2 years I only had 2 gigs booked that were cancelled due to panny d. bought about 200 records (7inch, 12 inch, and LP no 10 inch which is an interesting point for another thread). Had a proper gap filling spree during the last 2 summers.
2nd place probably merch bought about 10 tshirts
3rd 3 gigs and Sounds From The Other City booked
4th Bandcamp mp3’s
Don’t do streaming subs try things and buy them is my approach
I’d say I normally roughly buy 50 records per year about 30 gigs. Since Bandcamp is for new music generally that probably hasn’t changed and I don’t normally buy t-shirts
Streaming - nil, as ever…
CDs - pennies as I only ever buy second hand stuff occasionally to listen to in the car.
Gigs - a bit. Obviously had loads of stuff rescheduled from last year, but also did Latitude, South Facing and Wide Awake plus a handful of 2021 new announcements.
Vinyls - loads. Definitely replaced gig going with record buying during the pando. Also had to buy a new unit to store them in
My biggest music expense was buying a new hifi set up as I moved earlier in the year.
Next is a mix of vinyl and CDs (more on vinyl but I’ve tried to reign it in a bit vs last year)
Only went to one live event this year (Wide Awake) but bought a select few tickets for next year now (Low, Godflesh)
Spotify last I guess
Gigs - £187.50 (includes Le Guess Who ticket)
Streaming - £120.00
CDs - £43.00
Tapes - £10.00
Downloads - £45.00
Vinyl - £2837.50 (been spending a lot less these past 2 months since I’m commuting to work again and have been travelling a bit)
Just FYI but you know the artists, songwriters and labels get paid zero per stream on Bandcamp, right?
£200 on a festival ticket
£15pm or what Spotify family is now on streaming
£20 odd on the new Low album
First 2 have been pretty consistent. That’s the first vinyl I’ve bought in a couple of years though
I also bought a Primavera VIP weekend 2 ticket for €400 but that’s for next year.
Just FYI but you know if I spend actual money on the music I listen to on Bandcamp the artists get paid, right?
Thanks! I’ve just changed to that now as well, so I’m saving myself £3 now!
I’m spending more on buying music this year and last year - Bandcamp Fridays have been quite expensive in me trying to buy music then, and also making me less likely to try and hunt down a cheaper download from Amazon or something. I’m streaming all the time now, and so I feel like I have to actively keep buying music for the artists that I like. Last year was over £1000 on downloads and some vinyl records and a few cds. This year is a bit less than last year so far, but still more than the past ten years or so.
Gigs in 2020 and 2021: £100 each year
Before the pandemic it was easily £600-£800+ a year, and then a bigger jump if there was a festival added. So I guess some of my gig purchasing money has been going towards music buying.
So 2021 specifically so far:
Vinyl: £285.56 (Bandcamp or 365games)
Downloads: £263.20 (pretty much all from Bandcamp)
Spotify: £203.88
Gigs: £104.50
Socks : £100.13 (Efterklang Patreon with socks every quarter, and two pairs of Noiserv socks)
CDs: £60.16
Tapes: £33.31