Just finished updating the Music listing on my website for last year. 38 CD's I bought in the 12 months !! I thought all this MP3 stuff was supposed to be reducing record sales...

As a matter of interest, the 38 purchases break down as follows :
New music by a 'New' artist : 9 (24%)
New Music by an 'Established' artist : 3 (8%)
Back Catalogue of an 'Established' artist : 17 (44%)
Audio Books : 1
Various Artist Compilations : 1

I do not really expect the large % of back catalogue to continue into 2004, and I have just about had enough of compilations; there are only so many ways to repackage the same 'couple-o-hundred' tracks...

The good thing is the relatively large % of 'New artist' purchases. Perhaps the reason that record sales have been increasing recently is the greater quality and variety of artists being released...