"Fifty Quid Man" - What is the most money you have spent on music at one go in a shop?

A) In a shop
B) Online (since so many do shop online now)
C) Approx amount you spend each time you buy music?

A) I remember spending nearly £100 on my 21st birthday.
B) Not sure. I do sometimes pay stuff i asked to be kept on hold for me on CC cut off day. So probably have spent nearly £100 in a day online. Not very often mind you. Once in a blue moon stuff.
C) I think if i go into town I'll usually buy 2 cds or 2 lps so say £30?

$600 when Planet Music opened in Memphis
A couple of $500 trips to Amoeba (Berkeley)

A) €120 at a record fair recently (23 records total, so not bad value)
In one shop, I think I spent $80 in Dusty Groove summer '07 (and that after a long week of shopping elsewhere: maybe $400 total in a week?)

B) Rarely more than an item at a time and €30/ $30 seems to be my unconscious limit...... more than that and it feels like 'too much for an LP'

C) Mostly buy at charity shops/ car boot sales/ fairs so absolutely no 'average' buy.

A) I've spent about £100 in Ultima Thule before. Would estimate that that's my limit.
B) I usually only buy one album at a time online. But if we're counting 'in one day' rather than 'in one transaction' I'd say about £50, maybe?
C) Would guess the average would come to about £20, but that would be a wild stab in the dark, and should in no way be taken seriously by anybody.

1) About $180 in Amoeba, San Francisco. That was back when it was less than a hundred quid to me though.
2) £55 or so on that Björk box set a few years back. Most of that was in amazon gift vouchers that were a leaving gift from my former workplace.
3) Now that buying CDs is getting more and more divorced from a need to have things straight away, I tend to queue up three or four pre-orders/discoveries a time on amazon when I get round to it. So something like £30.

1) Probably something like $80. I definitely went over $100 a few times at Amoeba in SF, but I always had store credit too so I don't really count that. If you count store credit, something like $120

2) Online, probably around $60 or $70 on an order with Forced Exposure at some point around 2000 or 2001.

3) Now I tend to buy one or two less-expensive things at a time, so more than $20 would be a lot for me.

But if we're counting 'in one day' rather than 'in one transaction'

Yeah that's what I mean.

I suppose it was a bit of a waste of time asking this on a board full of music journalists who get promos.

$250 in Amoeba, SF (out of $1000 on CDs and records from the entire holiday that took in NYC, Huston, Baton Rouge, New Orleans).

It felt like I was on fucking drugs in there. "Do I really need this LP of Accadian French Cajun music? Who fucking cares - it only costs two quid."

The same amount of money would probably get me three 12"s in London.

Texan spelling error . . .

don't think i've ever spent more than $150 in a given shop or on a transaction. maybe as much as $250 in a day, but only a couple times. usually don't spend more than $70 at a pop.

I've never been into buying more music than I can take in in a single session, because it just gets put away and forgotten. So probably £30 or so tops with few exceptions - I daresay I'll've been fifty quid man once or twice when Fopp was a novelty.

Worst experience: I got drunk one lunchtime as a poor student and treated myself to a visit to HMV on my way home. I was devastated to find, among other things, a crappy Buzzcocks compilation in my bag the next day which had alone cost me £30. Great singles band, great design, my arse. Plus some kind of calvanist guilt prevented me from taking it back - I had earned suffering. NEVER go record shopping drunk is the lesson I took from that experience.

I seriously topped $400 enough times at Amoeba L.A. to get 3 free tote bags.

Approached or passed $400 at Vintage Vinyl in NJ half a dozen times or so.

It's never a good idea but it's so damn satisfying. Overspending at Amazon.com just doesn't push the same buttons.

Approached or passed $400 at Vintage Vinyl in NJ half a dozen times or so.

wow. i could see doing that in their metal section.

A) $180, i think, at other music. lots of noisy weird stuff and psych/prog. this was a long time ago. i remember getting algarnas tradgard's first album, not sure what else there was. i think this heat.

B) $120 or so from eclipse.

C) these days like $30 a week, mostly used stuff. i'm broke(ish).

a) Yeah, over £100 - used to do this every payday back when I had a good job - sometimes even twice a month.

b) I don't shop online.

c) When I have a good job, probably about £60 to £70 (I aim to spend about £50 a time and invariably go over) but at the moment I'm trying to keep it down to about £20 because that's my food budget it's eating into now.

I don't actually remember how much I dropped at Amoeba because my brother snatched my CDs away from me and paid for them, as he sent me back to search for 80s neo-psych records his wife had asked him to pick up and he didn't know a thing about but I did.

Actually I was forgetting that I topped 100 quid in Tower in Tokyo recently too, mainly because CDs there are so incredibly expensive even before exchange rate woes but it was the only chance I'd get

A) About £130 when Zavvi Buchanan Street, Glasgow had its big £3.99 sale a few years ago.

B) About £130 at Smallfish when they had a big sale to get rid of old stock. Other memorable biggies include £120 for a Keiji Haino boxset off eBay, and, recently, £85 for a bunch of CD/CD-Rs from Andrew Chalk's sale of his personal stash.

C) Probably ~£30 or more. Buying online I'll often wait till there's a bunch of stuff I want from somewhere and then order all at once, often heading to £50 territory, especially when trying to make it worthwhile in terms of postage from the US or Japan. I'll have occasional sprees at Monorail too, getting £20-£30 worth, mainly secondhand.

If I ever make it to Japan then I'm sure I'll totally kick the arse out of (B) (just thinking of Modern Music makes me weak).

Alex your keiji haino collection must've cost you a fortune! (btw I was in glasgow last monday,came in to see you since you said i always come in on tues or thurs which are your days off... and you weren't there.)

at one of the more recent Eugene record conventions I probably spent $600-700, but I was also making money from selling stuff. Does that count? If not, probably the first time I discovered Anomalous Records mailorder (RIP, sob) and spent close to 300.

Lots of big spenders on ILM it seems

I've spent £70 once in a day on music I think. I think £300 one month, post student loan arrival. £50 on a boxset once. Thank FUCK for the internet, I'd be getting me an IVA without it.

The missus wouldn't be pleased with you if spent that cash on music now.

Yes I would! As long as it wasn't on anything too apalling. And preferably was for me.

yall are crazy

i probly spent 60 on like three new cds once

a) I've dumped 100$ at Halcyon before, when i was particularly flush and there was loads of new shit in.
b) i remember some $70 orders to Vacuum back in the late 90s, and also some heavy orders to uh...yknow....the place that sells the noise, out of brooklyn? i feel like an idiot for not remembering, but i went on several sprees in 04 there.
c) on average, $35. usually one new thing that is expensive, one lost thing that kicks, and one old thing that is mid-range.

Mister Craig - you've made me nostalgic for my student days... damn... how did I used to spend £50 a week at the CD Centre in Leeds on pretty much anything they had that looked cool (from Current 93, Boredoms to the locals like Ashtray Navigations, Skullflower & Vibracathedral offshoots). Since I left uni 8 years ago the thought of doing such a thing on a regular basis defies belief.

A) Maybe £100 in Avalanche records, Edinburgh.... it was the NEU! and Suicide t-shirts that tipped me over the edge.
B) £80 to Clamazon back in the day for a load of J psych stuff... also threw in loads of coo/unwanted promo stuff that turned me on to Residents...
C) £20-25... most recently bough lps of TD's Zeit, and Sabbath - Master of Reality & Bloody Sabbath at a local shop for local people, and guess I must have spent the same on doo-wop and R&R 7"s the week before.

£220 on vinyl at Juno late last year after abstaining for a few months.

£150 in Tag Records in 1998 when I was first starting to get a bit too into techno.

emil.y > he would waste it on twee!

the last time I was round Chez Craig and Emil.y there was no twee involved!

There was, like, Boredoms remixes and stuff.

emil.y was dj? ;)

anymore Fifty Quid Men/Women out there?

nope

God!

Not counting "omg I buy this and sell it later for tons" i.e. stuff I'm buying for keeps, I can't really recall going over £70! And that's only for a box set w/ possible extra CDs on top.

- maybe £30 on tons of dirt cheap s/h stuff in Bristol Replay
- maybe £40 from some dude selling stuff on a messageboard if that counts
- varies too much for an average to be worth figuring out

I just bought £20 of secondhand 7"s today. I don't even have a record player.

Goodness, I hope you get one soon then!

Back in the days when I used to actually go to record shops (and before you could get everything online) I would often spend US$100-$200 in faraway cities.