[pp312]

Disagree. I have the choice to spend the money I spend on headphones on other things--cameras, car accessories, whatever--but I don't because I'm not interested in those things. I am interested in hearing at home a sound something like I hear in the concert hall, and thus I spend money on headphones. Having the means only gives you the ability to spend; it doesn't determine on what you'll spend.

 

[bracko]

Why spend money at all? Or why spend more money than you ralistically should or need?? No matter how much money you earn. 
 
What is very interesting reading this forum's threads is that many young people (I have seen 14-year-olds) spend huge amounts of money on headphones. I really don't want to dig into the question "Where can a teenager earn so much money to buy such expensive stuff?". One thing is obvious though. It is not only the love for the music that makes people invest in headphones (or any other "cool" stuff). It is also the sheer consumerism and money-spending-culture of our time that drives many people. We are just a part of a big engine, a big machinery called free market economy.  
 
Edited the word consumerism 

 

[DMax99]

Why we spend money on headphones; because we have the means to.

Haha... I'm don't. I'm just a poor student ;(

 

[CheeseWithWorms]

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 It is also the sheer consumism and money-spending-culture of our time that drives many people. We are just a part of a big engine, a big machinery called free market economy.  

 
Isnt the term consumerism?
 
For a moment i was petrified thinking that i read communism.

 

[Klypso]

It's true in part, but to reverse the problem, SMOKE SOME WEED
& enjoy your headphone, this is all you can do !
Consumerism can be good, sometimes ...

 

[bracko]

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Isnt the term consumerism?
 
For a moment i was petrified thinking that i read communism.

 That's true. Sorry, English is not my mother tongue.

 

[nicholars]

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Why spend money at all? Or why spend more money than you ralistically should or need?? No matter how much money you earn. 
 
What is very interesting reading this forum's threads is that many young people (I have seen 14-year-olds) spend huge amounts of money on headphones. I really don't want to dig into the question "Where can a teenager earn so much money to buy such expensive stuff?".

 
They don't their parents buy it for them.

 

[bracko]

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They don't their parents buy it for them.

OK 

 Now that's what I call bad parenting. 

 

[White Lotus]

OK 

 bad parenting. 

Unless they get a nice set of headphones as a birthday gift, or something..

(Then come onto the head-fi forums and argue with everyone about how good they are)

 

[Delirious Lab]

Why spend money on headphones?
 
Quoth Voltaire: "Le superflu, chose si nécessaire."

 

[appsmarsterx]

this is like asking why you spend so much money on X product in different niche enthusiast forums ..  I'm sure the OP is a troll because he has only 2 posts and created this thread 3 weeks, 4 days ago (same day he created his head-fi account) and Last Online: 3 weeks, 3 days ago.... and already disappeared...

 

[nicholars]

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this is like asking why you spend so much money on X product in different niche enthusiast forums ..  I'm sure the OP is a troll because he has only 2 posts and created this thread 3 weeks, 4 days ago (same day he created his head-fi account) and Last Online: 3 weeks, 3 days ago.... and already disappeared...

 
Don't feed the troll then

 

[swspiers]

Yeah- I know we shouldn't feed the troll.  But I do think it is a worthwhile conversation to have.  If nothing else, I have read the point-of-view of some people I otherwise would not have had contact with.
 
But still: troll feeding is bad

 

[Rem0o]

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Why spend money on headphones?
 
Quoth Voltaire: "Le superflu, chose si nécessaire."

You sir win.