Damn and Blast!
Oh, crazy, passionate love of Peter S Beagle, why must you be so expensive? There is my comics habit to feed, the hordes of movies I wish to see in May, my ever-growing DVD and book list, and various other sundry things that I want (such as a camera!). Now I find ConlanPress and I find that I can buy lots of Peter S Beagle books, audiobooks, pictures and CDs, personally autographed! But for high prices. And there is my dilemma. I can buy prints of the Japanese character designs for 'The Last Unicorn', five of them all autographed by Beagle himself, for the hefty price of $75. But they are so beautiful! But they are so expensive!
But look!
The Lady Amalthea is so lovely! How can I turn down a limited edition set?
Also, the fact that, while the movie 'The Last Unicorn' as sold over 300,000 units, Beagle never got any money from them. At all. That is a lot of royalties owed there. And the man seems so sweet. And he autographs things! And has a lot of limited edition stuff...
Agh. I think that I will pass on the prints, beautiful as they are, and focus on getting the books.
Maybe the audiobooks too, one day.
Agh. I love him so, but I am both cheap and materialistic, which is never a good combination. Books, then DVD, then audiobooks. Right.
YAY NON-MORAL, NON-ETHICAL, TOTALLY SELFISH DILEMMAS!