Recently, most of my CD buying seems to be replacing records that I own on vinyl as I can’t be bothered to get my turntable set up to listen the originals. Ebay is proving to be a great source for cheap replacements.
And I’m finding that the music I want to listen to (and, hence, buying) is more and more influenced by random external events. For example, on Sunday I had a conversation about the forthcoming film of “The War of the Worlds” and have therefore found myself listening to the Jeff Wayne album for the last few days (I really recommend the remixes album).
Then this morning I read the interview with Tanita Tikaram in today’s Guardian and I’m already tracking down cheap copies of Ancient Heart.
Of course, the downside is that I end up getting hold of albums about a week after I decide that I wasn to listen to them, but I kind of like the random way this all works.
p.s. Bloody hell. While looking for links for this post, I’ve just found this 7 disk collectors edition of War of the Worlds. Released in a couple of weeks.