How much of your free time is dedicated to listening to your stereo?

I don't listen TO my stereo, I listen to music through it ;-). And when I'm not, I still hear music playing in my head, all waking hours.

I listen to music at least 1-2 hrs a day. I get home well before my wife. This is my "me"time. 

Maybe a couple hours a day. The thing is, I actually feel a bit guilty about spending time sitting in front of my stereo.  I feel I should be socializing, getting exercise, doing chores or putting time into my musical instruments. 

Yeah, I'm retired, but I actually listened to my stereo a lot more when I was working.  As it happened, I spent many years reading movie scripts, novels and comic books(!) for a major movie studio.  Through the Seventies, Eighties and early Nineties, the studio provided offices for me and my fellow readers on the lot but eventually, as a money-saving move, they tossed us off the lot and had us working from home, communicating via the newfangled internet. Suddenly, I was sitting in front of my stereo all day, reading brainless action movies, teen comedies and animated features.  I agree it was a tough life...

I am in the retired category as well. I used to do shift work and was also on callouts so I became a night owl. When everyone is in bed at one end of the house I can go to the other end and listen for as long as I care to. So, for perhaps four to five hours a night is not unusual. Let us face it. There is not much on the idiot box so that is pretty much off the list. Music is relaxing and I often read with music on in the background. When I get something new (cables, music etc.) I tend to listen more. When I was working I listened a lot less as the telephone, pager, Nextel etc. dictated my life.
However, the stereo is a means of entertainment and not a life-style or a power that needs to be obeyed meaning it does not control me as it can and does with some people I know.

Being retired and living alone gives me more time than most. I wake, do the few daily chores, then sit and listen for hours and hours. I dislike the television so it gets a very limited amount of viewing time. As I type, the song "Riverman" sung by Kurt Elling from Lee Ritenour’s "Rhythm Sessions" just produced goose bumps. There’s not enough time for all I want to hear. I want perpetual goosebumps.