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.)

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[blarglefiend.livejournal.com]

I'm not really in the target audience -- I may have a slightly gothy outlook on life, but I don't do the club thing -- but...

I spend considerably more on music than on clothes, and have done for as long as I've had money. My shirts may be getting holy, but I spent a couple hundred dollars on music in the past fortnight...

(Not that much of it was goth. Hm. Probably none of it. Simply haven't heard of any interesting new goth music worth spending money on for a year or three...)