Kevin will be familiar with this.

Very simple premise: Post what you've purchased lately and how much it cost, you could even (if feeling extravegent) tell us where it was purchased from.

Things that should not be posted:

- food
- drink (incl. alcohol)
- taxis

Now go!

I bought a yacht, it cost me lots. I purchased it from a trade customer at work. Its awesome and was well worth the money.

I bought a Valentine's gift. It cost me $250.

Jesus fucking christ sam what in the hell did you buy her? I bought my BF a photoframe from the warehouse for $14, I didn't have much money (he hates valentines day anyways) but i did spend $20 on some incredibly sexy red lingerie off trademe (ha! I just spelt that wrong and wrote tardme by accident)

I bought a photo albumn as an engagement present. Cover made of carved wood with paua shell inset. It cost enough.

I told my girlfriend (truthfully) that I was planning on buying her flowers (she's currently away from NZ) via teleflora or those fucking companies, but then realised that since her mother is a bit weird about boyfriends, that I shouldn't. But I told her all that, so that sort of qualifies as one.

Sweet Lord, I forgot about the Cocaine Club's philosophy.

Myself and Doctor are the chief ideological-praxis proponents of the Cocaine Club doctrine: we are living our theories. We have dined at restaurants and fine eating establishments thrice in the past week. Fine restaurants, not some shitholes. I have spent over 100 dollars on those three meals, and it made me reach a higher level of consciousness regarding my status as a consumer. I felt proud that I was lavishing myself excessively and totally irrationally, in that I was bucking the current trend of being thrifty with cash. After all, I have suceeded in breaking the link between the fact that I am working full time and the fact that I ought to save money, which is a false link (the ends simply do not justify the means!!) and these feelings gave me a greater understanding of the Cocaine Club, and how one ought to live ones life.

The Cocaine Club's central thesis is that we must live by excess. Not killing ourselves through the excess, but through irrational and mid-level excess that results in boosting our collective and individual consciousness.

I spent 50 dollars buying Soviet badges and a British explorer hat. I spent 30 dollars on a parking fucking ticket. This last one was an abberration in my irrational expenditure, a treasonous dive into my irrational existence from a falsely sovereign entity (the city council).

I must end this with a poem, a salute, even.

Rational Consumers really do
Live a shit life
The rational dude buys a packet of cigarettes
Gets up in the morning
Shaves using a budget razor
And looks in the misted mirror
Trying to understand his lost consciousness
On his way to his office farm
He spots a bearded man walking along the street
Screaming at the top of his lungs
(The rational dude can hear the man because his BMW SUV's windows are lowered down)

But the rational dude wont hear what the man has to say
Screaming at the top of his lungs
Because, although he can hear the man, he drives past

the man calls for a return to nature
"Let's dig up the footpaths! knock down the filthy city scape!
Slaughter 97% of Earth's population!
To justify a return to foraging!"

the man takes a swig of alcohol
And continues down the street
To buy another bottle of alcohol
And a pack of cigarettes
And a razor
Because he's a fucking fraud

you are The Bard my friend.

you are The Bard




I have also spent $100 on those meals, and yet I am unemployed. Where does my money come from? :iiam:




/fake edit I wish I was on teh benefit so I could put :helen:

Law books-$460. OK, that's kinda boring... what else?

Sopranos season 5 DVD set-$99

On saturday I bought:
stuff from lush - $20
underwear - $30
radio - $16

And there was other stuff. And I might buy a flight to melbourne sometime soon.
I...didn't buy a valentines present.

I have enough stuff. I spend what money I have on petrol, food and drink.

I gave my girlfriend a text message for valentines day (Sam wtf? I guess you can't find anything to spend that summer scholarship money on?)

But yesterday I bought a Martin Scorsese DVD for my brother, who is 30 tomorrow.

I can't buy any stuff for a while :-( as my camera is fucked and I want to try and get it repaired, I owe my drummer $65, need to get anew rego for my car soon and also a new tyre.

Last things I bought that I can remember were:
- A DVD movie, "Singles", which is supposed to be a/the definitive grunge movie, with many performances of many of the Seattle grunge bands. Haven't watched it yet, I will watch it with my drummer.
- A few CDs, forget what exactly
- Other than that, can't think of anything interesting I've bought since my big fuck-off guitar amp in December.

Heh. I remember seeing that when I was 13. Will she get the boob job? Will he ever get off the couch? And just how much Pearl Jam can one soundtrack take?

:iiam:

And I forgot to say that the last thing I bought for myself was the Bright Eyes live album, Motion Sickness, which I added into my Christmas shopping.

lol! dont turn this place into the other place :P

I just bought a cd rack that holds 210cds.

I think I will need another one at least.

I bought a t-shirt and a v-neck hoodie yesterday. That cost me $50.
I got some photos developed. That cost me $18.95.
I got a fucking mean photo of my friend doing something insanely embarrassing. Priceless.

My Morning Jacket - Z $30
Pavement - Wowee Zowee $12
Blue shirt $27

Waterblaster - $70, to clean the boat :\

As in the magazine, Pavement? (EDIT// I have a feeling you're talking about a CD, aren't you? And now I look stoopid)

Is it 12 bucks now? What a rip-off.

I was naughty today, I only got paid $160, which I was supposed to use for my holiday this weekend, but I went shopping and now I only have $50 left, so i'm gonna be relying on my mum and boyfriend to fund my holiday :P

2x tops - $25 & $10
2x necklaces - $15 each
Belt - $7 (it was on sale, i couldnt resist)

If I had been paid more (ie. if i had a fulltime job) my post would probably have been more like: "went to Zambesi, bought top for $385, dress for $550......" ooooooh, I wish. I'll just have to settle for *cough* Supre (oh the shame :cry: )

I take it now would be a bad time to point out tha Wolrd is having a sale...

I went there today and nearly spent $500 on sale items thanks to the gay salesman there. He's really awesome, but reeeeally manipulative.

I bought 2 tops at World, one was $100 (down from $495) and the other was $30 (down from $165)
Then I trotted over to Laundery (previously known as Manic) on Little High Street and bought the coolest black deep v-necked dress. It has a hood. Which makes it oh so rad. It was $70 (down from $85)
And then I went to Fast and Loose's sale store Search and Destroy and bought another dress.

God I feel guilty.

Oh well! :D

1 pith helmet - $25

2 noisy shirts - $15


I think I didn't do too badly

Yeah it's an album, by a band called Pavement.

Sad that you don't know them.

Y'know, girls, did you ever think that maybe they jack the prices way up so that when they have a sale they can tell you it's reduced from some previously exorbitant figure?

...Nah, they wouldn't do that, how could they manipulate you so cruelly? :-P

I got a Che shirt for ten dollars in a market in Sydney. Everyone's face has a price, even if it is wildly out of fashion and used illegaly..

These should be standard issue for the Cocaine Club.

World on sale? Gah! Some of their stuff is cool, but i agree, sales assitants are very pushy there.

Where is this search and destroy store you speak of?? I'll have to check it out, i love fast and loose!

Yeah, of course they do, but it doesn't matter, if you love it and want it badly enough you'll buy it no matter the price, like my Zambesi Carpet Bag(and no, it isn't made out of carpet, it's nice bronze/pewtery leather) that was my b'day present to myself and that cost me $450, i don't care if it only cost $100 to make, it's a great bag that will last me ages and is transeasonal (very important). You shouldnt buy fad pieces that are exorbitantly(sp?) priced, they'll only last a season and then go on sale, total waste of money.

Yeah, I fully agree. If an item is trans-seasonal, then it doesn't really matter how much you pay if you love and will be able to wear it for fucking ages.

Search and Destroy is upstairs in St Kevin's arcade. There's a staircase sort of on the opposite side of the walk way from Fast and Loose as you enter the arcade. There should be a sign somewhere to direct you, hopefully. Otherwise, just look up and you'll see the mannequins out and what not and you can flail your arms in the air towards them and whine longingly. I'm sure someone would help you after a while. ;)

Your carpet bag sounds awesomely awesome.

World sale is on until this Sunday. :D

I refuse to wear a Che Tshirt. Doing such a thing would suggest to Joe Public that I can be lumped in with all the ignorant fuckwits who wear those shirts because said shirts are considered cool or somehow rebellious, and have no idea of who Che Guevara was or what he stood for or did before he got capped.

I have, however, considering wearing a Che Tshirt where I have written beneath the obiquitous picture: "Smells".

The Cocaine Club shouldn't all conform to a uniform dress code; but rather we should use our own individual fashion styles, while still having enough unity in dress to appear a cohesive unit. For me, the joy is in my personalized accessories, which are chosen to maximize rocknrollitude, irrespective of the club. I can then dapper myself up a bit with a CC suit to complete the ensemble.

EDIT: I am the Trotsky to your the other guy.

$54 on Lush.
$20 on Bashful Bunny Present (chocoalte and makeup)
$15 on paper for boyfriends surprise present

I considered pressing the hammer and sickle 'Report post' button due to your favourable casting of Trotksy.

I plan on purchasing a Che T-Shirt, and then wearing it with the direct evidence that I know exactly what he did, that he kicked some serious arse in Argentina, Cuba, the Congo and Bolivia!

Nevertheless, a Megadeth chain is always going to beat Communist imagery.

I'm a Pavement fan. They are pretty damn cool.

I'm going to buy flights to Melbourne.

I need to keep my jetsetter lifestyle up.

I mean, this is Hannah, not Fez. He's not cool enough to be a jetsetter like me :P

I bought crc long life lubricant :naughty:

Careful, you'll end up with an icepick in your back...

Steveo bought loob.

I wat?

Leather executive chair-$800

Cuz my ass is that important

haircut - $27 (I think)
shoes - $6.30
Kyuss - Wretch $21