Reddit mentions of Remo SP-0207-TL Spring Drum Thunder Tube - Stormy Graphic, 2.32"

This crazy thing.

Lots of things you can do with $25 on Amazon:

Behringer Ultra Vibrato UV300 pedal ($25)

Behringer Ultra Chorus UC200 pedal ($25)

Rock Band 25-key MIDI keytar ($24)

M-Audio SP-2 sustain pedal ($14)

Behringer Ultravoice XM8500 dynamic vocal mic ($20)

Auphonix 6" double mesh pop filter ($19)

Behringer Ultra-DI DI400P passive DI box ($20)

On-Stage single X keyboard stand ($22)

Andoer melodica ($20)

Andoer kalimba/mbira thumb piano ($12)

Big Thunder Tube ($30)

Small Thunder Tube ($8)

Angled Thunder Tube ($28)

Meinl Percussion 8" claves ($6)

Stylophone ($24)

Cables

Cable adapters

I wanted a bigger discussion than just Behringer's ethics. ethics deserves a much broader discussion than just them. In the interests of complete transparency, my title is clickbait. we have been talking a lot about value and price recently, and there's a lot of good discussions to be had around it. I wanted to create one around how manufacturers aren't "ripping us off" with high prices as some people have put it, but rather actually deserve a profit, and a good quality of life that comes with it. This being a capitalist society, profit is the way a business creates that. I favor other mechanisms for creating a good quality of life for people (psychedelic anarchosocialism, plus robots), but they are really just illustrative, and pretty farfetched. I find it makes conversation more entertaining for everyone to bring in farfetched ideas as a counterpoint to the main melody.

I mean no disrespect to Audiothingies. I chose to feature them for this discussion because I honestly feel like I should have paid more. I'm sure they did intensive research on how to price it, and of course they have far better data than I have (as I said, all I have is my pineal gland). But they didn't take me into account, and I'd have been willing to pay more for this item specifically. So their information isn't perfect, and my personal feeling is that it is underpriced for the value it delivers. I really prefer "pay what you want" pricing, with whatever minimum the manufacturer feels is fair. then whoever feels they'd like to pay more just to be supporting the manufacturer, can.

It's a good point about France. I could have made this post about the Blofeld as well, but they are in Germany so also not likely to become medical slaves. Hmm... ok, howabout the Thunder Tube? I have had about 10x more fun with this thing than the price implies.

Overall, this post is just another attempt by some dude on the sub to try and get people to stop claiming "price gouging", which happens with every instrument that is more than $500, and which shows that the sub clearly needs posts like this one: points of view that nullify those claims. In this case, by asking people to think about the ethics of the whole process and not just in selfish terms. But there's lots of other approaches that can be taken, and have.

Consider it a magickal act of undoing. we have a rule against price shaming, but the energy is still there.