How many crappy albums have you bought?

[dubold]

yeah, i think the internets help me sift out a lot of stuff. also I'd rather buy gear than music. well, no. maybe. I'm not sure. But I think I tend to be a lot less indiscriminate now. I've sorted through bin after bin of cutouts and drek from used record stores, and bought things because they were cheap or humorous or both. and i have some real stinkers. but that sort of curtailed itself over time. Now it takes more than a hilarious title or "hey, i think i need this robyn hitchcock 12" single" for me to pull out the billfold.

although not much more.

honestly, I think I buy less music now because I don't drive a car. that was my primary location to practice singing along and field-test mix tapes, as well as audition music. Now I have to actually sit down and listen in the living room.

at one point I told myself I would never sell a record or cd I've purchased, because I wanted to keep a sort of fossil record of my musical "taste". I've stuck to that pretty well so far.