Mike Carlyle wrote:
I hear ya on the economizing thing. I actually considered the Tech 21 I got a bargain at 180 dollars used. I didn't think it was all that much for what it brings to my tonal table. Most of my guitars, on the other hand, are not on the higher end of the cost spectrum. My MIM 50's tele cost me four hundred bucks. I bought it on a frigid cold day in the parking lot at the Auburn, MA public library from an internet buddy that met me there. My Strat cost me $279 at a local store. It's an MIM Standard. Works and sounds great. My bass also cost me four hundred and I bought that from a trusted bass playing friend. I'm currently considering my most expensive music purchase ever, a Taylor acoustic.
Well, I find that I had more money to spend on kit when I was a single-income single person than a single-income married person whose partner is taking expensive university courses ;) Ah, the joys of family life! Luckily, I bought my more expensive gear in my carefree and footloose bachelor days. Someday I hope to be in a dual-income household with a correspondingly higher toy allowance :) Cheers, Carl -- Carl Edlund Anderson http://www.carlaz.com/