Maybe The Songs Just Stay Hidden

So way back, in 2018, the food prices that are crushing us now and the fuel issues were all there. They just weren’t peaking yet. Combine that with the apps coming in and trying to take 20% of every food order. Pretty crazy. Then COVID normalized delivery of every kind of food, and everything being expensive. And to this day, no one has given back all those COVID prices. So whether it’s restaurants or guitars, anything new—which I hope the food you’re buying is new—is a serious price increase. And I think we’re now at the point where people are not willing to pay for it. In dining, this means not going out, and in guitars, this means buying your shit off Marketplace. I bought a $350 Squier Bullet from the early ’80s—a bass—and it is now easily my favorite. I put new strings on it and a few other parts. Really nice strings. My theory is putting expensive strings on cheap instruments works, and it does. Way better than the inverse, anyway. And I just love this bass. If I went and bought…