$27,500 for whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat???

Funnily enough i sometimes get the impression that quite a few here think a sum such as this would be chump change.

It is true. There are some here who think being an audiophile is about how much you spend in your system, while some of us are about how much we can save!

" It is true. There are some here who think being an audiophile is about how much you spend in your system, while some of us are about how much we can save!"

I'm in it for the music & sound quality. That said, I wouldn't spend $27K on paint... but could care less if someone else does. Really to say I could care less is an understatement. It's none of my business. 

Ok folks, would you spend $2.70- for a nice paint upgrade, because to a ton of folks...paying $27,000- is the same equivalent, as it is to you paying $2.70-!

I'm personally disgusted by conspicuous consumption and vanity products and that's all this is.  It has no redeeming qualities.  The 27k for paint is just an especially egregious example of it.  I think it's something we should all  avoid.  Almost anyone can feel good by having something others can't.  Even if you're just the homeless crackhead with the fanciest pipe.  It's not that the pipe somehow performs better, it's that the other crackheads in your group can't afford it, and you make yourself feel superior by being better than them.  There's no higher level goal like a better crack high.  It's the most base instinct.  Moving up in the pecking order, like a chicken.

I'm thinking of my crazy uncle Russel, who, trying to sell an MG, painted it with a brush.
It was horrible.