Could you stop buying music?

Even if you did not have to, I have been on a forced not buying spree over the past six months because of my financial situation and that I bought loads of stuff over the previous 5 years and wanted to get to know what I had more intimately. So with the economic downturn it seemed like a good time to do it, of course I could have with some searching for bargains like secondhand stuff and re-issues expanded my collection much slower than previous I decided to try and cut it out altogether. Now to my surprise its been easier than I thought, I really haven't felt a massive urge to buy more music, like I did previously and this has allowed me to really play what I already own on a much more regular basis which has been very enjoyable and I've found many albums I had forgotten about. I imagine this last point would be echoed by many others on here as I was buying 4+ albums a week at one point and inevitably some will be stashed away and forgotten.



In this period of musical Lent I have had time to think about where to take my collection without filling it with forgotten albums and fluff and that has lead me to the conclusion that I need to focus on artists or labels that interest me and try to have a wide variety of styles that I'm not really listening to the same thing by two different bands as can be the case if you have a narrower musical taste and mine is far from narrow also not to be taken by the latest Flash In The Pan (remember them?) and to research my acquisitions more thoroughly than before.



So could you stop buying music and just savor what you already have as it is said happiness comes from wanting what you have rather than have what you don't have.







The real Dean..