Re: A Question to the List about economics...

Dave Allen (cabuay@philonline.com)
Mon, 17 Aug 1998 19:48:23 +0800

>So my question is- with all the tight music that flows through this
>list, how do you guys AFFORD all these tunes, and how do you DECIDE on
>what to buy? It takes so much time to evaluate every cut on every disc,
>plus the tunes are frequently so complex that you have to listen to
>every one all the way through in order to catch the hooks and changes,
>etc. As you all know, sometimes you get hyped on a cut and the rest of
>the disc is virtually crap. I'd like to minimize that sort of thing by
>getting good data or good prices, cuz as you also know, those imports
>are killa on the dolla! Muchos gracias in advance...

Great topic! I could relate. I personally have to like 1/2 the album befor
I buy it. Sometimes I just the the damn thing from all the hype created by
peeps on the mailing lists! When the rest of the CD is crap then I try to
find and MP3 of that one song.

Recent purchases:
Miles Davis: Tribute to Jack Johnson - I never heard it but was 1/2 so what
the hell and you could never really go wrong with Miles.
Garbage: 2.0 - Kinda dissapointing, gotta listen to it a few more times.
Lenny Kravit: 5 - Pretty good. Ventures into the Hip Hop Ambient area.
Deep Forest: Boheme - Havent heard it yet but I heard Luna Medina off their
new album. Plus it was 1/2 off.

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