My microphone cost me six grand.
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Excluding property, what is the most expensive thing you have ever bought?Originally asked
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My microphone cost me six grand.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 January 2009 source ↗
A 1956 Selmer silver alto saxophone.
A trip that was, like, $100k. It was a lot of money and I didn’t even go on it. It was to St Barts. I paid for me and my friends and a lot of stuff fell apart, and then it ended up with one of my friends just going with his girlfriend.
A $100,000 Mercedes.
My children’s education.
People who judge other people's actions on their own thought process.
When I was a child and I got a new toy.
I would obviously be in a good place chemically, the synapses would be content. I would play with my kids. I don’t think I would have time to watch anything by Ingmar Bergman. Bergman would suddenly feel like not that good a director if I only had a few hours.
I'd have not sung along with Yellow Submarine in that infant school hall.
We used to have one of those gat guns that shot pellets. My friend pretty much had the thing at point-blank range to my temple. It popped out and completed its trajectory about a millimetre from my head.
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