Well, see, it happens like this. You've heard about lit buttons for years, and one day you're at an empeg meet and Tony whips out his empeg with brian's glowing green buttons and you think "Damn, those are nice." However, you can't buy Brian's buttons, because the people who have them protect them with their life and never sell them. Years later, buttons come on the market and you finally have a chance at getting lit buttons.

So you hop over the Eutronix to find out about getting your empeg pimped out. You start shopping. "Oh, if I'm going to send my player off, I might as well get a digital out board"... Might as well add in a new drive cable, you never know when the current one will die. So now, your Eutronics shopping cart is up to $400, and you havn't even gotten to that allureing "Buttons" link at the top of the board.

At this point, you sigh, decide that paying your credit card bill is probably more important this month (even if you bank doesn't think so... they illegally hold your tax refund check for 5 days, which causes your CC payment to bounce. but I digress.)

I've gone through variations of this for months. I'd love lit buttons, I just don't have the $500 sitting around.

Matthew