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There are so many great performance and recordings available. I am always looking for music I have not heard before.
A <A HREF="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/29/AR201001... article</A> details the lackluster sales of classical music discs. Do you buy classical music?
Very little, if one considers movie scores classical. If not, then never. I can't get into it. It is more appealing to hear some rock, jazz, or even pop instead of classical. I simply don't find myself craving it enough to buy.
I'm not sure how to define "quite a bit," but I marked it anyway. I'm buying them regularly. I just bought four CDs from Reference Recordings. I also have one from Yarlung and plan to buy more. I'm also going to start buying hi-rez discs on DVD-V as soon as I buy a new player.
I buy when the mood hits. I go through periods of buying, but it is hard to justify owning 10 different versions of the same symphony, or concert, or ensemble piece when there are so many other albums to buy. If I had more money I would love to delve deeper rather than cut a broad swath.
This article is shocking to me. I thought classical sales were one of the few genres that were not suffering terribly due to digital downloads. Guess I was wrong. I can't believe my limited number of CD purchases is actually moving the charts!
I blame the education system for making entire generations think "classical" music only sounds like the Classical era and associating it with being stuffy and boring. Then they grow up without ever hearing the amazing work of lesser-known composers like Nielsen, Shostakovich, Glass, etc.
I buy a little, it's just hard to know where to start. And often there are so many versions of the same stuff, that if you hear of a recommended album, you have to match up five different values to make sure it's the right one.
The Lebrecht-type gloomy prediction is getting tiresome. As a 23-year-old grad student of science, nearly all of my expendable income (out of a sub-minimum wage salary) goes into the purchasing of classical CDs. I shop at three sites monthly: Crotchet.uk, Arkivmusic.com, and Amazon.
I sure do. Jazz as well. SACD and Red Book. My CD collection is growing rapidly. LPs also. I have a music server as well as a big rig. The only thing I ever downloaded were some HDTracks samples. I like having the media in my house. I rip my CDs for the server but play the discs on my Esoteric X03SE for serious listening.