how much do you spend?

[bullit]

just a random question, i was wondering if i spent excessive amounts on vinyl per months or if you guys tend to spend more?

i'd say this month i have spent £250 and probabilly got around 40/50 tunes for that (which is more then i'd usually spend in a month but found a lot of tunes that i 'couldnt pass me by')

so how much roughly do you guys spend a month? week or whatever, just interested to see if im becoming a 'record buying addict' heh.

[IrieMystic]

100bucks in 3months prolly it depends whats good and if the price is right.. dont spend much when you have alot of important bills to pay.. vinyl just a hobby.. i wont lie sometimes i feel like saying fuck it i see all my vinyls..

[rasdragon]

alot.... too much says the misses!

[bullit]

Yeah its easy to spend rediculous amounts huh?

[6anbatte]

Particularly when you haven't been buying any reggae for 20 odd years and then "stumble" across an awesome site like this!!!!

[Ranking Toyan]

I collect on and off. Once I'm caught up on stuff I never knew about(thanks to this website) and reissues, I take a break for months without buying anything. However, just these past 6 to 8 months, I must have spent about 800 dollars on reggae.

[leggo rocker]

Well, my wife doesn't read this site but she does check my buying totals on ebay so I can't hide the fact that it says I have spent UK Pounds 1250 in the last 60 days.

I've maybe spent 500 a month on reggae for the last 6 months and maybe 2 - 300 a month in the 18 months prior to that.

Far far too much on stuff that used to cost 50p a disk in the Notting Hill record and tape exchange just 20 years ago.

But I DO play it all, I play my vinyl every single day as much as I can as loud as I can (which is VERY very loud....)

I would love to get out and DJ with it but sleepy Lincoln hasn't quite woken up to roots rock reggae - YET!

[leggo rocker]

At what point do you think this vinyl buying qualifies as a compulsive disorder?

My wife thinks that getting several versions of the same LP just because they are on different labels qualifies...

[gunosantos]

Well... since 2003 i wasn't buying not even one single 7", due to lack of financial resources. Just got back collecting about three months ago, and since i finally got a little extra money i already bought my own gifts for christmas

let's say that i started buying loads of tunes these 3 months, just to compensate the years without buyng...

so, that means that these last 3 months i've spent about U$ 1000.00 per month (about U$ 2.000,00 only this month)

That's just because i received some extra money from a insurance, but i know i won't be able to buy that much every month...

Let's say that i would be very pleased if i could save U$ 500.00 every month to spend on records... that's my goal for 2007! hope i can make it...

Blessings.

[leggo rocker]

... I am making up for 20 years without buying records and for stupidly selling them all 20 years ago....

I have the booming UK property market to thank for this reggae spree as without making some good money on a house recently my little income would never support this ridiculous spending!