It is unfair to say it is our culture's priorities are way off. By doing so, you are insinuating that we are unique. If you look throughout history, almost every culture has a unjustifiable fascination with something the don't really need. Gold, jewels, sea shells....MrBoZiffer said:I was thinking about this recently. How is it that guitars, especially vintage, command so much money? I mean, these prices are insane. I realize all the textbook economic theories such a scarcity and specialization, and then of course the idea that these are "works of art" that can also make art, but it just seems like our culture's priorities are way off. Paying $50-$100k for an instrument--an arguably mediocre instrument by comparison--is truly astonishing and even revealing. I think much of it has to do with shallowness, honestly. And that's especially true when it comes to old strats and teles or flame-top LPs.
That being said, I'm certainly guilty of indulging too much when it is absolutely nonsensical. Right now I have three amps. I want to sell at least one. I've been racking my brain trying to decide which to let go. All three are 1x12s with 6V6 pairs based on the Fender Deluxe (one is a Deluxe). They're essentially all identical but I'm nitpicking nuances as if I'm trying to split an atom. :roll:
Guitars = insanity. :lol:
davismanLV said:If you wanna talk about whacked priorities take a look at our sports greats and look at their salaries. They play games for a living...... jeeze.
Ridgemont said:Tom: regarding our sports icons, just count how many of them, with their bloated salaries, declare bankruptcy a fe years after retirement. It is nuts to see how many can't handle their money.
Jim: thanks for the other link. I just posted a thread with that link an hour ago. Very interesting stuff.
Agreed, Sandy. It's a work of art that hangs on a wall. The best emotion it congers up would be "unsettling" in my case...... and it's usually worse than that.twocorgis said:davismanLV said:If you wanna talk about whacked priorities take a look at our sports greats and look at their salaries. They play games for a living...... jeeze.
Or how about "The Scream" just selling for 120 million, and it's not the only one; there's four of them? :shock:
All too true, my friend. I wish I had even a small percentage of that money to NOT squander.Ridgemont said:Tom: regarding our sports icons, just count how many of them, with their bloated salaries, declare bankruptcy a few years after retirement. It is nuts to see how many can't handle their money.
Wait, don't tell me you have never dreamed about a swimming pool full of champaign and strippers. I can't think of a single kid who hasn't wanted that.West R Lee said:Ridgemont said:Tom: regarding our sports icons, just count how many of them, with their bloated salaries, declare bankruptcy a fe years after retirement. It is nuts to see how many can't handle their money.
Jim: thanks for the other link. I just posted a thread with that link an hour ago. Very interesting stuff.
But think about it Ridge. You take kids....kids who have been told all of their lives that they are better than anyone else kids that have rarely been told "No" and are used to getting virtually anything they like (in college and after turning pro), and they've never been responsible for anything other than their performance on the field. Then throw in the partying and the women. Then combine that with the agents and bloodsuckers who's only objective is to get their hands on the athlete's $ millions. Just a bad combination, and the reason so many go broke.
I can remember many years ago when Tony Dorsett signed for an unheard of $850,000/year and just a few years later, filed for bankruptcy a couple of years after retirement.
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Oh, so it's a conscious choice for you? I had no idea..... :lol: :lol:Ridgemont said:That is why I choose to stay poor. Less to worry about. :lol:
john_kidder said:The total that I have paid for my guitars is probably about the same as a new pickup truck. So if I keep driving my '78 3/4 ton van for chores, I can keep the gits without guilt.
I believe that is not really for the deceased, but to prey on those who are left behind. :evil:taabru45 said:Sometimes its the cost of what really doesn't matter that amazes me... coffins for example....... :shock: Steffan