2010 Music Retrospective by Numbers

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• brittleblood

  January 2011

  not to add fuel to the fire, but pulling the plug on the source has given me the chance to give what i already have a more serious listen. also gave me time to put the xmas mix together.
  
  and as i already mentioned, the viola lessons ain't cheap...
  
  on the lol front: rec'd an emu return plea...in it they pitched "we got glee!"
• BigD-Bluez

  January 2011

  Watch out, bb, that "glee" can be dangerous. They say it won't hurt you but it can ruin your life. I hope they didn't say the first bit's free.
  
  elwoodicious, you have done a brave thing. All I will admit is that 2010 had two less days than 2009, but 2 more GB - better bit rates I suppose. Thank God those crack cards are all gone, and here's hoping that higher prices will keep me from having to go down to that basement hovel where the DA meetings are held.
• elwoodicious

  January 2011

  "we got glee!"

  They need a better CRM. Seriously.
• Germanprof

  January 2011

  As I just hinted on another thread, I am thinking that I might have a larger dose of the drinking-from-a-fire-hose problem in 2011. Before joining this board, I had gradually whittled my SFL at emusic down to a dozen or so items - I was a booster or two away from clearing it. A month on here and it's back up to 87 items. And then there's all the bandcamp and netlabel stuff I'm finding out about here. Sooooo many intriguing recommendations...
• elwoodicious

  January 2011

  I just turned off the firehose for myself by putting the three accounts that my wife and I have between us at eMusic on 90 day holds. Or thinking is we'll just buy music 4 times a year or come up with a better solution to disposition those accounts. Feels sort of like an addict's rationalizations but when I looked over the approximate costs of last year's buying spree it worked out to the equivalent of a little over a pack a day habit. A habit that I love but am not getting to really enjoy.
• Germanprof

  January 2011

  I think it's entirely admirable to make such a decision. I even identify with it. I can easily see myself getting there too at some point - have been close once or twice.
  
  I sometimes suspect I'm still adapting to the current spread of music availability. During those teen years when I first got passionate about music, I had very little money and lived in a household that had almost no investment in music (my father owned maybe a dozen LPs (managing to put me off certain kinds of country music permanently), my mother none). That generated the maybe clich
• pzeke

  January 2011

  @ Germanprof: yes, exactly. The only thing I can add to your post is that I just went to the Inflation Calculator website to see what the cost of a record I purchased in 1977 as a 15-year-old--say, $6.50--would be today, and the answer shocked me: $23.47. Whether this is good or bad I'm not entirely sure, but there it is.
• Germanprof

  January 2011 edited January 2011

  @pzeke Wow, in some ways it seems like it should be higher, just in terms of time elapsed...but I do remember records seeming very expensive. (Except that one market stall had crates of used/discarded singles at 30 or 45 pence (UK), which made possible the extravagant gesture of buying SEVERAL AT ONCE!) (Funnily enough, I think 42p is what UK emusic subscribers are currently paying for single track downloads)
• kargatron

  January 2011

  All I can easily report is my iTunes lib stats, added in 2010:
  
  3833 tracks
  550 artists
  573 albums
  ~35 GB
  
  About 36% jazz, 26% popular, 11% classical, 11% experimental, and 16% a mix of other stuff.
  
  That doesn't try to filter out random tracks, one-offs, etc.
• MKR

  January 2011

  Well, I just cancelled yesterday after being a member since October 2005. I, too, am looking forward to to spening more time listening to my music rather than browsing/collecting/organising it.
  
  Here's what's in my iTunes dated for the year 2010 but some of it seems to be old stuff that I added sometime during the year or CDs that I burned:
  
  3119 Tracks
  28.58 GB
  
  I'd estimate about 85-90% of that is "new" music for 2010. Mostly classical.
  
  MKR
• thomnottom

  January 2011 edited January 2011

  It's possible things have not been labeled properly and therefore not accounted, but it looks like:
  
  7600 tracks
  771 albums (whole or partial)
  548 artists (997 when also counting those just on comps)
  64.8 GB
  3wk 3d 5:13:43.091
  
  That doesn't include any freebie singles or comps, but does include free albums from Amie Street. If anything it makes me realize that there's no way I'll be able to acquire as many different "new" albums as I have these past couple of years. I'll be content to delve into my collection even more these days, but there was a real thrill this year being able to purchase just about every release that even slightly interested me.
  
  The more difficult task at hand is burning off all of the bootlegs I acquired over the years. Stopped my heavy downloading years ago, but I'm still just now burning concerts that I got 4-5 years ago.
• BigD-Bluez

  January 2011

  Gads, I just realized there's copious amounts of freebies from Amie etc. that aren't even in my current iTunes, having been backed up to disc and consigned to the hard drive gulag, so my accounting of the other day is lowballed fer sure, both for 2009 and 2010. But they say make hay while the sun shines and I have to feel that 2009 and 2010 between Amie and crack card binges were probably the salad days of downloading for me, having not really done much until 2006. Many horizons have been broken, many holes filled in, so rather than despair over the magnitude of my recent affliction, I will choose to content myself that I have laid in a larder of musical nutrition to defy any forthcoming famines of scarcity, and remember, winter is coming.