I've probably bought ten CDs in my whole life.
My kids don't really buy albums. They buy singles.
There were a whole lot, I bought every blues record I could find, it wasn't just one or two people. My vocal influences were Ray Charles and Bobby Blue Bland.
I am such a music fiend. I go after so many different types of music. I'm on iTunes constantly just buying new music!
The first record I bought with my own money was Rio.
Don't get me wrong: there are aspects of buying music online that I love. Instantly being able to hear a song the moment it crosses your mind? Where's the downside? However, I do feel for those too young to remember the thrill of going record shopping.
And I know how many DJ pools have grown and I know how DJing has grown in the overall, but that was the technical side of it to me. DJs were rolling around, looking for stuff to buy and looking to see what was in the store when they get there.
CDs are not as good as vinyl, and you buy one in the supermarket along with the yoghurt.
Obviously, I want it to be legally downloaded, and I myself have spent a fortune on iTunes because, for me, that's the easiest way to get music.
I grew up in an era where the record companies just sold records to everybody, and the whole family bought songs.
I'm buying records a lot, like, every week I'm just buying old reissues or old originals or new records that I have heard about.
I don't even remember the last time I bought an album, honestly.
I think the last album I bought was a very beautiful album called 'Lost Wisdom' by Mount Eerie featuring Julie Doiron, and I bought it direct from Phil Elverum via his website. It's cool you can do that now with the Internet.
