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Mood:  a-ok

After two - or so - long years, I FINALLY have the complete collection of Cla$$war. What is this? Its a comic book. Well, its a comic mini series to be exact.
Back when it first came out I was only able to buy the third issue. I couldnt find the other five. So I went hunting and still couldnt find them. I begged my comic shop to track them down for me and they did their best, but still couldnt get them. Part of the problem was that it comes from England and so imports arent that easy to get ahold of. Even the people on ebay werent selling the full series, just a book here and there. Until recently.
Last week I bid on and bought the full set, in near mint condition, for less than $20 including shipping. That, my friends, is a steal cuz each book is no less than $5 a piece. And yes, I would have paid that, or more, to finally read this story.

On a similar note - before the invention of "borrowing" sites such as Kazaa and its cousins, and legit sites such as iTunes, listening and collecting music was done the old fashioned way... buying it in a store.
During one MTV award show I was treated to a performance by a group called the Leningrad Cowboys. Theyre made up of English speaking foreign guys wearing giant elf shoes, unicorn hairdos, and super bright costumes. They cover classic American songs and are occasionally backed up by the Russian Red Army Choir. Yes, real Russian soldiers, in full uniform, singing Sweet Home Alabama.
The day after watching them I went to my local music store to buy their cd. They didnt have it. Neither did any other music store in San Diego. Or Los Angeles. And yes, I looked.
I finally got Blockbuster to agree to order it for me, but that order never showed up cuz it was coming from Japan and theyre were problems or something. So after a year of waiting, I canceled.
A total of about five years went by before I managed to get a copy of the cd. Five whole years, for one cd. But it was worth it.
And then not too long after that I found out about Kazaa and managed to snag a couple dozen more of their songs - all very entertaining.

So in both cases, persistence did indeed pay off. And I am a happy boy.

-- DBW --