Luckily, it's also a fine thing to share a little bit of the music you love with someone in your life.
Christmas is a great time to give someone a nudge in a direction they wouldn't necessarily go themeselves. We're talking, unexpected and exciting places. Here's a few nudges, and all at crazy cheap prices.
Your best mate digs The Beatles, and McCartney's always banging on about Pet Sounds so he went out and got that. But has he heard the fragile whimsy of the Beach Boys Smile? (1CD Edition $15).
Your Mum has Led Zeppelin on vinyl, but she's never heard the cinammon soul of Alison Krauss and Robert Plant's Raising Sand? ($10)
Your brother isn't really in to music that much. The last gig he saw was U2. But he hasn't heard the sparkled symphonic beauty of the latest Coldplay? ($15)
You're wife likes Kate Bush, and digs the Gotye track on the radio, but has she heard Florence & The Machine's Ceremonials? Stick some under the tree for $10!
You were more in to the Bluetones in the 90s and now you want to see what all the fuss about Nirvana was?
Here's a collection with 15 tracks to set yourself straight. ($10)
So, your teenage nephew goes to a rather opressive but ultimately advantageus private school. He's got The Wall (because it was on the booklist), but he's never heard the proto-Radiohead art rock of Dark Side Of The Moon? We've got the regular CD for $10 and the Remastered Experience Edition for $25 (the remaster includes a previously unreleased 10 track 1974 live recording).