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comment by kleinbl00
kleinbl00  ·  2176 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: You Should Care About Your Bank Exactly As Much As They Care About You

mmm... Back in the '90s you could get Neumann record lathes for a song. I didn't buy like eight of them off of rec.music.makers.marketplace because cool as they were, what the fuck did you do with one?

Now? Now mutherfuckers are selling vinyl for like $30 ea. Had I bought those eight Neumann lathes and put them in storage for fifteen years I would have made like $20k. Of course, had I bought them new and sold them now I would have lost like $80k.

Went walking with a buddy in 2002. Fisherman's Terminal, Seattle. He observed that for the price of one 88' fishing trawler he could buy an Arri IIIc 35mm motion picture camera. In 2015 I saw an Arri IIIc for $2500; the fishing trawlers are still six figures.

Know what I love about Michael Cohen? He owns 37 taxi medallions.