Laboriously keeping track

I’ve just added a couple of new charts to the self-absorbed Stats section of the site. Both are on the money page, and those will be updated at the end of each year. § First I’ve got one showing how much I’ve spent each year on music over the past 30 years: CDs, downloads, and streaming. Here’s an image of the current state of it: Amount spent on music listening per year This doesn’t include spending in cash, which I didn’t track, and was more common in the early years when buying CDs. I mainly made this chart because I wondered how my spending now compared to previous years. I’m kind of pleased it isn’t really less that it used to be (the missing cash spending aside). I didn’t include spending on gigs, or contributions to radio stations, because while they’re music, they feel like a different kind of thing than buying music to own (sorry, I mean buying a licence to play files). Of course, if we take inflation into account, my spending has dropped: the £299 I spent on CDs in 1997 is…