For me personally, music has never been better. Radio play of some stuff that I don't like means that I can stick my (whispers) Beach Boys (normal tone) CD on repeat non-stop for ten hours and never get bored.
Seriously though. I like to think that I have a broad taste in music. When I say broad, I mean broad. Not like the difference between The Smashing Pumpkins and Zwan, to name just two. I can and have listened to Bon Jovi and Westlife at near enough the same time.
Over the three or four or so years that I have been buying music, I have bought, borrowed, and re-recorded over 3000 CD's. Most of which I still like, most of which were relatively cheap. Most of which still now are. I refuse to pay too much for music. I have felt the same since Napster went down. £20 is my absolute limit for a double CD, £40 for a four CD box-set. n>4 CD box sets whereby n = number of CD's within package, such as that (n=6) released by The Beach Boys I decide upon the merits of the individual artist(s).
Anyway, back on topic...
A lot of CD's which never made the chart in Britain (I define chart as top 40 are now very hard to come across. Mainly they are techno CD's which I see now and again in bargain bins. And hey, it's music, it's cheap, why not share the love?
That's me done for now...
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