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17/02/2004 Music for a Thrifty Grown-Up
The problem is, I love music. All kinds of music. Fusion to bel canto, fifties pop to alt.country, Baroque sacred music to Chicago blues. I seem to have spent half my adult life in record shops. I learned a long time ago that the only way to handle the compulsion to hand over my monthly salary cheque to music retailers was to stick to certain rules, and ensure I maximised my "bang per buck" - don't buy just for the packaging if you've already got it; only buy if you'll listen more than once, starting within a week; most of all, wait for the discount offers - they'll come. Without this discipline it would have meant semi-starvation, raggy clothes, unserviced car, and a leaking roof. Let alone having to forego all those equally tempting live gigs. The compulsion to seek value even goes as far as saving the discount price tags on CDs - virtually every album in my collection has a low price ticket re-stuck onto the back of the packaging, almost as a trophy. Recent victories for thrift include: According to the Rolling Stones (book) for £7 (from £30 last autumn) Gerry Smith
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