...but money sure can buy lots of things that temporarily fill that empty, dark hole in your heart. like drugs, for example. but i didn't buy drugs. you shouldn't do drugs. i shouldn't either. and i usually don't.
i just dropped 150 bucks that i totally didn't have (okay, i had it, but only because i did like 20 extra hours of grading over the last few weeks so i could ostensibly have "emergency money"). on what, you ask? on stupid bunting stuff, of course!
1. 60 bucks to preorder the hardcover hand-signed and hand-numbered limited edition of RA's book with an extra one-print-run chapbook and some other shit.
2. 35 bucks to preorder the vinyl version of "cardinology" with the bonus 7' record, a digital download code, a t-shirt, 17 postcards, and special leah hayes album art and graphic novel. keep in mind i'll still also have to buy the CD version until i'm able to afford a decent turntable setup (which is looking like a prospect for next year at this point; honestly, it depends on how much it's going to run me to do the DIY version of timing chain and clutch replacements)
3. preorder of phish's roxy box set. this is actually the only thing on this list that makes anything approaching economic sense. 8 discs plus one bonus disc for 9+ hours of music for 40 bucks. it doesn't hurt that over the three shows in this set they played 78 different songs, so unlike all those old DMB box sets, there won't be seven versions of the same song. 78 songs for 40 bucks = 50 cents a song, for soundboard-quality remasters. totally worth it.
i'm excited as shit about all this stuff. i just have to stop spending money. or not. you've got to have something in life to make you happy, after all...
that sounded worse than i meant it to.
tell me about it... i'm holding myself back from buying oodles of microphones and sundry gear so I can hopefully get some mixing paid for and still buy a car for when I find a job.
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