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How much money do you spend in music?

Very little over the last few years. Probably under $10 this past year. I haven't heard anything other than singles from iTunes Radio that I wanted to buy.

I used to spend close to $1,000 per year several years ago. Most of what I bought back then that got the bill that high was the Complete Bob Dylan, Complete Depeche Mode and the Complete U2. None of these are available on iTunes anymore.
 
Ummmm probably less than $100 a year. If you asked how much I spent on books...... yikes. A lot more.
 
Probably around £100 a year usually.

With a student discount, I've started paying for Spotify instead as it only comes to £60/year. I'm not too bothered that I don't actually own it, as I can still listen to it whenever I want provided I still subscribe to Spotify.

I really like listening on Spotify. I've discovered dozens of new artists from their New Music playlists that otherwise I would never have downloaded or listened to.
 
About $100.00 a year on iTunes. I tried Amazon music, but their mp3s aren't encoded with silence at the needs of tracks. If you download an album with tracks that run into the next, there is a gap. iTunes always has the songs with no gaps, so you can listen to concept albums seamlessly.
 
I have around 50 or 60 receipts this year from iTunes, so likely it's a fat number of bucks, but I haven't broken them out into books, movies / TV and music yet so it beats me and probably I don't want to know. Far less on music this past year than on books. And less on movies for some reason. In some past years I have dropped just scandalous amounts on music and movies / TV. Right now I'm only addicted to Downton Abbey as far as TV goes.

With what I have now in my music collection I'm pretty content, although I prowl around and grab up a few things here and there. I wouldn't call my recent music picks eclectic, more like just shy of random! I still buy classical CDs now and then, and once in awhile a movie DVD when I can't get a digital version.

Books are the thing I blow my budgets on now, I just love being able to cart around the equivalent of hundreds of board feet worth of bookshelves in an iPad. Yet I still buy quite a few paperbacks and hardbacks too. Nice thing about them is no problem giving them to someone else, and no problem accessing their content when the power goes out and all my blink-eye toys eventually run out of juice unless I go out to the car to charge them.

I feel lucky to have lived to see these innovations that have brought us books, music and video in digital formats and on hardware we can tote around in a pocket. When I was a kid there weren't even any computers (well there were, but civilians certainly didn't have access to them), never mind the portable gear we have now. Counting my blessings!
 
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