I’m sure some of you think I’m a dick because I keep link-whoring to Amazon products so as to finance my affluent lifestyle. (And I’m sure many of you think I’m a dick for many other reasons, but today I’m addressing this one.)
Just so you know, though, although I’m keeping a tighter rein on the purse than in the past–as are many of us–I still occasionally buy stuff I don’t need.
Today I received a box of 29 (!) DVD-Rs from Something Weird. Each disc contains a selection of old industrial and educational shorts, of the sort often poked fun at on MST3K. (Indeed, I imagine there is some overlap.) The discs sell for something like $12 each plus shipping, but every once in a while they put up a set of them on eBay for a much lower starting bid price. I won the last time, and with shipping got all 29 discs for like $160 or thereabouts. So that’s about five and a half bucks a disc. I figure if nothing else I can resell them at that price.
Each disc has somewhere in the area of two hours of stuff on it, so the real question is, will I ever actually watch all of this, as opposed to all the other hundreds of unwatched DVDs I already own.
My plan is to watch at least one short a day. So at that rate the set might eke out for over half a year or more. Anyway, see, I buy a lot of crap, too. And so the lesson of Marley’s Ghost goes right past me once more.
