Standing on the headland taking in the scene.

[reddragdiva]

"If people spent 1/10th as much on music as they did on corsets for instance, you wouldn`t see LJ full of bands whinging that the scene is dead." (markeris, on the goth scene, from here.)

I can hardly believe how much money I used to spend on records and how little I do now. Not that I spend it on clothes either. Nor am I making it up in MP3s. Mostly I'm just wishing I had my old vinyl here. With a laser turntable.

Discuss.

(By the way, full points to mickmercer for switching on comments at last. A lot of interesting ones, too.)

Comments

[siani-hedgehog.livejournal.com]

i don't spend any less on music than i used to, as i can now afford to buy cds instead of used records and cassettes. i'm just not as excited about the music i do buy, and i think that's just because i'm older - music no longer offers an exciting way of defining my identity, i no longer think that i could be like my rockstar idols, and having heard a lot more music, nothing sounds as fresh and new. i wonder if the wee babygoths find music as exciting as i did when i was younger. i bet they do.

[reddragdiva]

I could spend just as much as records. With reference to wanting my old vinyl, there are four or five compilation CDs of my favourite period of Australian indie rock I really really really should buy.