Originally Posted by Otis

Hipsters, Really? I love how when a person spends a lot of money on something, everybody here who would not spend that kind of money on the same assumes the person is a dolt and is going to use said purchase in some idiotic way. Maybe that person is smarter than you, afterall they have a lot of money to spend, which means they were smart enough to earn it or smart enough to be born with it.

Honestly when it comes to collecting you cannot always quantify what a "lot" of money is, when it's spent on a piece that does not come up for sale often enough to track prices, or is in the kind of condition you may never see again. Not everybody is a collector, I'm not, but I understand the passion and drive that serious ones have. And it's not always the well heeled. I've seen guys who live like paupers but will spend thousands on a 1920's blues 78. It's just priorities (their own).

I personally might not agree with what some collectors spend, but I respect their right to spend their money, and would never piss on their parade when they do.