I have never bought music on the strength of somebody's review, any more than I've not purchased an album because some music hack has given it a panning!

There is so much available online nowadays that if I hear something I like I will check it out on Youtube or one of the other internet sites. It's easy to do and you don't get caught with buying an album because you've heard one song you like and then find out that it doesn't reflect the rest of the performer's output.

This might be a tad more difficult to do in future, thanks to the good old PRS (not my favourite organisation) and their dispute with Google, who are blocking UK users from watching music videos.

Case in point is that I heard a song I really liked today by Alela Diane, an American artist of whom I'd never heard before. I've listened to some of her songs on Youtube and I will look to buy her albums as soon as I can afford to.