Holiday shopping can be difficult at the best of times. Crowded malls filled with screaming kids, long lines for the hottest electronics and that wonderful moment when your mind draws a complete blank on what to get somebody important. The task only becomes more difficult when you reach that person on your list who still pines over dead rockstars, seems to have every song of their favorite band on iTunes and whose wardrobe consists of only vintage band tees.
iTunes Gift Cards, Spotify Subscription
Even if most of their phone's memory is taken up by music it will never be enough. An iTunes gift card makes a great stocking stuffer for the music lover on your list because it lets them get exactly what they want without having to pay! What could be better than that?
Paying for a year or even a month's subscription to Spotify or Apple Music will make you royalty in the eyes of your music buff. Now they can download as much music as they want from almost any artist!
Headphones or Docking station
After you’ve given your music lover the gift of downloading the music, why not amp up the way they listen to it? Music lovers need comfortable, good sound quality headphones. You can find great headphones and earbuds in many different places and you don’t need to spend a fortune.
Some like to play their music loud and proud, so a docking station or Bluetooth speaker would be the cherry on top, allowing your music lover to play their favorite jams no matter where they are in the house.
Records and a Record Player
Some music buffs like to keep things simple and pay homage to the glory days of music. Vinyl records and turntables give us the ability to pay that tribute and respect to music of the past, and even present! Almost every music lover has one of these or has been saving up to get one. There is just something about holding a physical copy of your band's favourite album that makes your heart sing, as well as brings on a certain nostalgia with it’s crackle and pops.
Luckily, finding vinyl has become much easier in recent years, and you can get a pretty decent sound system for a reasonable price too. If you are on the hunt for a record put out more recently by a new group, Milkcrate Records has you covered! They also sell some great options for sound systems.
Band Tee’s and Memorabilia
Decor
Most music buffs don’t want to just listen and wear their favorite bands; they want to live with them! No not literally (well yes, we want to do that too), but we love to have our walls covered with posters, hang up our most prized musical possessions and have almost every piece of furniture and dishware pay some sort of homage to our favorite artists. Things like record frames (which you can get at almost any music store), hero hooks to display our guitars, bar stools with our favorite band's logo, coasters and mugs; the list is endless! You can get these things at stores like HMV, Wentworth Music, Amazon and the band's merchandise tab on their own website!
A bonus for you is that they will probably be so grateful that you will be the lucky one to join them at the show! Concert tickets can be found anywhere, but tricky to get your hands on. Sites like Ticketmaster, Select Your Tickets and Ticketfly are good places to hunt.
Now that you are an honorary music guru, go forth and give your music lover a rockin' holiday surprise!
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