Suggestion: cheaper music
May I suggest you try exposing yourself to chance and new discoveries by not buying any new music that costs over $3 an album unless you buy it directly from the band?
Find the clearance shelf at your local indie record store (Streetlight on Market's is in the upstairs back right corner & prices are $1 or $1.95). Check out yard sales & thrift stores.
Sign up for LaLa and turn the stuff that didn't work out into what you know you want.
And there's lots of free entirely legal music online these days, to listen to, and to download. Browse around myspace.com, lots of bands show their stuff there. And remember mp3.com, from way back when in the Golden Age? They still exist, and still have free music.
Posted by: Elkit | October 09, 2006 at 11:54 AM
Don't forget the library- especially in larger towns- I've been going a little crazy and getting lots of great music. And it is FREE!
Posted by: rosie | October 09, 2006 at 02:14 PM
And don't forget about magnatune.com -- it's basically music using the shareware model.
Posted by: Yuda | October 11, 2006 at 06:52 AM
mixed-tape.com
it's a promo site for mercedes benz. you can listen online and all the tracks are downloadable for free!
Posted by: HedNod | October 11, 2006 at 07:49 AM