It's ungrateful to complain that recorded music is so plentiful and (by historic standards) cheap to acquire, but there is a problem, isn't there?
I'm just back from a holiday in Warwickshire and came back with 15 or so CDs (mostly second hand). And while I was away I ordered some material from the Chandos sale page, making 24 new discs in all.
I'm enjoying making my way through them but am saddened that many of these pieces will get heard only once - even the ones that have really grabbed me.
I don't really want to go back to everything being expensive but I do feel like I've become a bit shallow lately in my listening. It was very different when a "mid price" LP was £4 and I was funding purchases from my Saturday job: THOSE records got played MANY times...
I'm just back from a holiday in Warwickshire and came back with 15 or so CDs (mostly second hand). And while I was away I ordered some material from the Chandos sale page, making 24 new discs in all.
I'm enjoying making my way through them but am saddened that many of these pieces will get heard only once - even the ones that have really grabbed me.
I don't really want to go back to everything being expensive but I do feel like I've become a bit shallow lately in my listening. It was very different when a "mid price" LP was £4 and I was funding purchases from my Saturday job: THOSE records got played MANY times...