I've always resisted the term "consume", unless I'm talking about something that gets eaten, drunk or burnt. Lots of things aren't destroyed at the point of use.

This isn't just pedantry. A shiny new CD with shrinkwrap intact is in some sense "consumed" the moment you open it up - as a commodity, it loses a lot of its value by being sold for the first time (look at the secondhand market). But the music - the bit of the CD you can actually use - never goes away; it's never "consumed", however often you listen to it.

The ideal object of consumption is something which you can't access without paying money, which only the person paying the money can access and which you can only use once after you've bought it. In this sense I guess you could say you consume a concert ticket - but music itself is something you can get for nothing, and which you can use again and again, and pass on to others without any loss of quality.

So don't talk to folkies about being "consumers"!

(Me, I mostly hear music live (sometimes paying, sometimes not), though I do often download MPEGs of out-of-print albums (not paying). I rarely buy new folk CDs except from the performer. I never listen to Mike Harding, but do occasionally listen to TGIF online.)