Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Buy an HD-DVD Player

["Jonathan King" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On 11/3/07, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Nov 2007, Vern Green wrote:
>
> > I think the same could be said for anyone willing to pay more than
> > $1,000 for a guitar. Why would someone do that? When you answer that
> > question, I think you will find the answer to why someone would spend
> > over a $1,000 for an entertainment player.
>
> I happen to have never paid $1000+ for a guitar but I have a guitar that
> is supposedly worth more than that.  I just bought it about 25 years ago
> for $700 and it has increased in value.

There are two ways to look at this. The first one is that inflation
took you into the above $1000 category, so you're okay by Vern. The
other way to look at it is that $700 was a ton of money to be spending
on a guitar back then (well over $1000 in 2007 dollars) and Vern can
be appropriately disgusted at you.

I'm going to take a third approach, and disagree with Vern. I will
agree that more than $1K on a *solid body electric* seems pretty silly
if you're just talking about the sound of the thing. But if we're
talking about an acoustic or particularly a classical guitar, I think
it is more justifiable. (I will grant that there are very nice
sounding acoustics for rather less than $1K, but there are much nicer
acoustics for more than $1K.)

And then there are viola prices, which appear to be set by defense
contractors or something...but I digress.

> I know what you mean though.

Me, too. There are definitely people who want to overpay for stuff.

jking

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