Many decades ago, when I was a young adult, I probably spent around $30 a month purchasing music (CD's and, before that, vinyl records), $30 a month on newspape

Many decades ago, when I was a young adult, I probably spent around $30 a month purchasing music (CD's and, before that, vinyl records), $30 a month on newspapers, $30 on magazines, another $40 a month on books, $20 a month on cable TV and maybe another $30 month on video movie theaters/VCR/DVD/rentals. All up, around $150 to $200 a month on various entertainment media. With inflation, that's probably $300 or $400 a month these days. For my income range, this was not at all extreme. For this, I got much much less than what you can get for $300 a month these days.