Yesterday a videotape I bought online arrived in the mail. I paid over $90 for it. It is used and not in great shape, isn’t pornographic and probably cost under $20 new. But I paid what I paid gladly because I wanted it. It is a copy of the 1983 movie “El Norte”, a wonderful foreign movie that is no longer available on videotape or DVD, not shown at theaters or film festivals and not displayed on network, cable or satellite TV.
So just for the pleasure of seeing it again, I paid way too much for it. Has anyone else done anything similar?
I paid 80 dollars for the non-dubbed version of Das Boot. I’d do it again, though I’d search the internet first for a better bargain.
Last Thursday I paid about six week’s net pay for a watch. Know what it does? It tells the time. It has an extra hand to keep track of UCT (GMT). It displays the number of the day of the month. It winds itself. But I wanted it.
Oh, it also almost caused a co-worker to veer off the road when she noticed I was wearing it.
I paid $90 for a laserdisc copy of “Song of the South” 'bout 7 years ago. Of course you STILL can’t get it here. Infact, you can’t get it anywhere anymore, at least in a retail place.