What's your CD budget?

[Jo498]

3000$ last year, probably 1/2 of this this year.

Do you mean that you will spend half of this amount within 2015 or that you have spent already $1500 in the first 4 months or 2015?

Interestingly I found lists and estimates of my purchases 2010-12. These are lower bounds because Ebay and some odds and ends are not included, only stuff I bought at the 3 main online stores where I shopped most frequently.
This lower bound is surprisingly stable at about 680-730 EUR for all of those three years. So I guess the true amount was probably 800-900 EUR on average in those years. (I am pretty sure it must have been more for some years ca. 2005-09, because I had more money and more space back then.) It's definitely somewhat less for 2013-14, probably around 600 each year. But again, some odds and ends might easily add up to another 100 or more, so all these figures hold only as estimates/lower bounds.

This is still too much as I do not have the space (nor the money but the latter will hopefully change eventually but not to such an extent that I do not have to care about storage space at all). I should try to cut it to half the # of new CDs, that is about 250-300 EUR/year or about 25/month. The easiest way would be to forego any purchases every other month and keep to roughly the amount I spend now in the months when purchases are allowed. Too much fasting will only lead to mad binge buying...

I am also trying to sell some CDs but this yields usually only 30-50 Euro/year, except for one occasion when I sold discs for more than 200 EUR before a move (so I had to move only 22 boxes with CDs instead of 24 or something like that).

[71 dB]

I have a monthly budget of 100 euros for CDs, DVDs and Blu-rays. I try to spend as little as possible, typically 40-80 euros/month.  I spend probably 700-800 euros/year.

[The new erato]

Do you mean that you will spend half of this amount within 2015 or that you have spent already $1500 in the first 4 months or 2015?

The first, hence the qualifier probably.

[kishnevi]

I certainly have a CD budget.
It is just that I usually never stay in budget. 

I am trying to cut back, and I am buying less (he says, with a $100+ of CDs in the shopping cart for later this weekend).  But I should be buying way less....
And living alone, sneaking CDs into the house is rather pointless.

[Mandryka]

£120 pa to spotify and maybe £200 pa tops for the odd recording here and there. If I want to hear it I usually find a way to do so.

[Ken B]

I certainly have a CD budget.

And living alone, sneaking CDs into the house is rather pointless.

I think of it as practice.

[Papy Oli]

Aiming for a maximum budget of £60 per month for CD's/Books.

Actual average spend is closer to £70 per month (1275 USD per annum) over the last 40 months with all those boxsets and what-not of the last couple of years...

I log in all the CD/Books purchases in a spreadsheet to keep it in check...-ish... 

[NJ Joe]

And living alone, sneaking CDs into the house is rather pointless.

But...but...what about the neighbors??

[Brian]

But...but...what about the neighbors??

Luckily the neighbor below me has been gone for a week, so right now I'm blasting Constantin Silvestri's coupling of Love of Three Oranges + Shostakovich No. 5 with no repercussions!

[Moonfish]

I chose between $500 to $1,000, but the truth is I haven't bought as many CDs last year or this year (so far) as I have in the past. I'm trying to scale back my purchases and I'm always in the process of culling my collection somehow to make room for other recordings.

Ah John! You mean your monthly budget, right? 
You just spent $200+ on the five Sibelius boxes! I estimate your annual cost for cds at several thousand dollars and perhaps even more based on the purchases you made (which I do enjoy following in the GMG Purchases thread). You seemingly tend to prefer single releases at the cost of $10-$20 or so. I am not sure how you could manage your past purchases with a $500-1,000 annual budget! 
Higher powers know that we all probably should be in that realm or even a lower tier. So what is your actual monthly budget? 

[Moonfish]

What budget?   0:)

*I am very good at making packages go away and quickly integrate new arrivals into the piles. Only time-lapse photography would give me away*

[Moonfish]

I think of it as practice.

+1   
Hear, hear!

[Ken B]

I chose between $500 to $1,000, but the truth is I haven't bought as many CDs last year or this year (so far) as I have in the past. I'm trying to scale back my purchases and I'm always in the process of culling my collection somehow to make room for other recordings.

John, I've seen you spend that much just on Skalkottas!

[Artem]

I tried to not go over $200 for CDs per month. Budget is not an issue though, my biggest concern is the lack of time to listen to what I purchase.

[Mirror Image]

John, I've seen you spend that much just on Skalkottas!

I haven't even listened to any of those recordings either.

[Mirror Image]

Ah John! You mean your monthly budget, right? 
You just spent $200+ on the five Sibelius boxes! I estimate your annual cost for cds at several thousand dollars and perhaps even more based on the purchases you made (which I do enjoy following in the GMG Purchases thread). You seemingly tend to prefer single releases at the cost of $10-$20 or so. I am not sure how you could manage your past purchases with a $500-1,000 annual budget! 
Higher powers know that we all probably should be in that realm or even a lower tier. So what is your actual monthly budget? 

Yes, actually I paid $226 for all of those Sibelius BIS sets (incl. shipping). Yeah, I do seem to go for the single releases these days and this is because I've already bought a majority of the box sets I want. As for single releases, it really depends on the price as to whether I buy it or not. I don't buy CDs that are over $12 unless there's just absolutely no other good sellers and it's a recording I truly want in my collection. I was just being a bit conservative with my guess of $500-$1000. As I've mentioned before, I'm actually starting to scale back as I haven't bought as much as I used to.

[Ken B]

I haven't even listened to any of those recordings either.

That's why I picked Skalkottas!

[Mirror Image]

That's why I picked Skalkottas!

[Dancing Divertimentian]

This would be the limiting factor in my case.  Thought less so since reaching an arrangement with the regular mailman about a special "drop zone" for anything vaguely CD-shaped (bonus payable at Christmas.)  0:)

[(poco) Sforzando]

I buy very few music CDs any more. Last week I bought a CD of Taverner masses at my local used CD-DVD store, for a whopping $2.99. But I spend about $100 a month on DVDs and BluRays of good films, used through eBay or Amazon Marketplace whenever possible. (More when Barnes and Noble has a 50% sale on Criterions.)