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Originally Posted by OccultHawk
Where do you get the money for that stuff?
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Many of the titles among the ~550 are demos, works-in-progress, art installation pieces, and other non-commercial recordings not made available to the public. I've built an archive of these, somewhat out of my devotion to a band which flung wide the door of my mind to strange and wonderful sounds.
Out of the 150,000+ recordings and films in my catalog, I'd estimate that ~35% (approximately 52,000) are works not available to the public at any price, so my investment has been small.
The vast majority of the items in my library are commercial works which have been out of production for the last half century, so I purchase them from resellers in their country of origin, or sometimes I have to settle for an independently-sourced archival FLAC + .CUE.
I take home about $24,500 a year - a very modest income for a homeowner. So I do my best to limit my music investments to about $1200 a year. It's a good balance.
The good news is, I have resources at my disposal to custom print most anything I desire , so all the imprinted merch and poster prints that fill my home are made by me on the cheap.