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2025 : The Year In Buying Music [part 4]

Posted on January 8, 2026 by postpunkmonk

[…continued from last post] EPS OF THE YEAR There is always a joy in EPs beyond their modest length of playback. As the late 70s and the calcification of radio in the US brought the EPs to this shore as … Continue reading →

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2025 : The Year In Buying Music [part 3]

Posted on January 7, 2026 by postpunkmonk

[…continued from last post] SINGLES OF THE YEAR There were a lot of singles this year. You’ve got to love them. I know I do! Even if they are mostly immaterial now. The joy of a single is that they … Continue reading →

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2025 : The Year In Buying Music [part 2]

Posted on January 6, 2026 by postpunkmonk

[…continued from last post] 2025 BUYING STATS Total titles purchased: 154 [↓18% 2024]Total expenditures: $966.65 [↓21% 2024]Average cost: $6.30/title [↑1% 2024] Expenditures were down this year by over 20%. Good, but not great. I always like to shave the costs … Continue reading →

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2025 : The Year In Buying Music [part 1]

Posted on January 5, 2026 by postpunkmonk

The year 2025 has been a weird one. We knew going into it that the US had picked a President who promised to be a “dictator from day one” and then had the temerity to NOT lie for possibly the … Continue reading →

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2023: The Year In Buying Music [part 4]

Posted on January 10, 2024 by postpunkmonk

[…continued from last post] The third category of note is one near and dear to the Post-Punk Monk’s heart. Possibly the raison d’etre of my mission as Post-Punk Monk; reissues. And there are almost as many of them vying for … Continue reading →

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2023: The Year In Buying Music [part 3]

Posted on January 8, 2024 by postpunkmonk

[…continued from last post] Singles were very active this year with 19 being purchased. Singles were primarily non-LP tracks, but in a few cases were singles attached to full albums. Sometimes even in physical format! Most of these were from … Continue reading →

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2023: The Year In Buying Music [part 2]

Posted on January 4, 2024 by postpunkmonk

[…continued from last post] ALBUMS OF THE YEAR So what were my favorite albums of the year? I think this year I have set a modern record for hearing albums contemporaneously in the year of their release. Seventeen albums from the … Continue reading →

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