My Rant of the Week (1): Week #1

As part of my growing angst (I'm a teenager. What else am I good for?), I will be doing a segment each week that reflects what is currently pissing me off.
This week: Anime DVD's are hella expensive. Two reasons why I caught on to this seemingly blatantly obvious fact: my parents bought me the Ghost in the Shell DVD's (and those...other ones), and I was looking at the NGE 10th Anniversery DVD, not to mention all of the FMA ones. Get this: $249 for the special edition 10th Anniversery NGE DVD box set, according to Anime Insider. That's all of what I make in a good week! That also means that this month the PS3+Wii fund is going to be killed off, because I will get the set when it comes out on Tuesday. Curses. I also have to figure out how to factor the FMA DVD's into the equation. And of course, once I start there will be no stopping. The next thing I know, my room will be filled with anime DVD's. Curses.

The Pirate Bay is your friend... not that I'm recommending anything.

Who are you buying the DVDs from? Media Cavern is pretty reasonably priced. Though I'm not crazy about them being run by Yahoo!.

http://www.mediacavern.com/index.html

Even so, the Wii will be cheap so you'll only have to save maybe one week. That alone is worth it.

Screw the PS3.

No no no. Not "Screw the PS3." I want a Blu-Ray/Impressive looking video games player. And I sure as hell don't want a 360 (especially considering that with the HD-DVD drive it will cost the same as the good PS2, yet offer much less).

Said By PropellerHed

Who are you buying the DVDs from?

I was looking at prices at Best Buy.

Aside from your comments about the PS3...

Have you checked the prices at a Bit Torrent site?

No. I refuse to download them. I want the box set because is comes with amazing goodies (even bumper stickers!)

I'm in the BT camp here. I've never seen any anime worth shelling out $250 for...ever.

I think Aron is correct on the prices at a Bit Torrent site.