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Originally Posted by swa(y)
revolution starts with a CLOSED book and perhaps a BROKEN stereo.
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did you mean to say the revolution begins with a minimum wage job at the tail end of a giant, useless bureaucracy?
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Originally Posted by GeneticKiss
Gibson sells Les Paul Jr. reissues for thousands of dollars, whereas they were the equivalent of around $300 originally.
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An LP Jr in 1954 sold for $120.
According to this inflation calculator:
http://www.dollartimes.com/calculators/inflation.htm
that is $846.56 in 2009.
An LP Standard in 1961 sold for $310.
That is $2,186 in 2009 dollars.
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Originally Posted by GeneticKiss
Music Man used to sell an inexpensive version of the Silhoutte called the SUB 1. They saved on money by not contouring the guitar and using flat textured paint finishes. Unfortunately they ended up losing money on each one sold, so it was discontinued.
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So, are you saying that guitar companies should sell you guitars below their cost, and somehow continue to operate? You are not choosing very good examples.
I would not attribute the prices of guitars to high wages, because the actual price of wages has been falling since Reagan gutted the middle class and started selling our country piecemeal to whoever would buy a chunk. Also, modern production methods have brought the manufacturing costs way down as well. Not many skilled laborers turn guitar necks on a lathe now.
Scarcity of good wood due to shortsighted wastage and not replanting?
Fewer people playing guitar, bringing the cost per unit up?
New, sane environmental regulation?
Good old corporate bottom line?
I think any reasonable person would blame these for high prices before labor unions. Is Fender even unionized?
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Originally Posted by GeneticKiss
Welcome to the boards, tdbajus. Don't start off by flaming people, because it'll only make you look like a douche.
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Sorry, knee-jerk, right-wing selfishness gets my goat. It has also destroyed the middle class and set us on a path where soon the only jobs in America are going to be working for minumum wage in Walmart selling things made overseas by children whose wages per week can barely buy a can of Coke, or owning the Walmart.
But keep voting Republican!