Photograph Your Vice Tonight - Page 3

Ibby · 03-28-2012, 12:23 PM

What else would 15 (or 30 wolf) buy back then? what's that in todays money?

wolf · 03-28-2012, 12:46 PM

6 cartons of cigarettes.

Or a bottle of Jack Daniels and 4 cartons.

Ibby · 03-28-2012, 01:11 PM

gosh but cigarettes are so much more expensive now too. how many LPs would it buy? how much was a 2-liter soda? what'd ordering a pizza cost?

Big Sarge · 03-28-2012, 01:13 PM

Tsk, Tsk! Ya'll are a bunch of hardened criminals. Dope fiends caused by reefer madness.

Spexxvet · 03-28-2012, 01:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Ibram

gosh but cigarettes are so much more expensive now too. how many LPs would it buy? how much was a 2-liter soda? what'd ordering a pizza cost?

When 1 oz was $15.00...

A vinyl album (40 minutes of music) was $5.00
A pack of cigarettes was about $0.50
A gallon of gas was about $0.60
A stamp $0.13
A Caddy Eldorado was about $10,000

Spexxvet · 03-28-2012, 01:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Ibram

gosh but cigarettes are so much more expensive now too. how many LPs would it buy? how much was a 2-liter soda? what'd ordering a pizza cost?

Liters? What is Liters?

There was a half-gallon bottle of coca cola called The Boss. Remember, soda bottles were glass back then.

Ibby · 03-28-2012, 01:45 PM

oh yeah. pre-plastic-bottles. sheeeit. but 5-dollar LP is a good barometer. How much did ordering, say, a large pepperoni pizza cost?

still, wow. 3 albums / oz. If you assume that an album now is two to three times that, give or take, that SHOULD mean that it should be thirty to fifty bucks an o nowadays. daaaamn.

edit: that is to say, i think the price of music is an important barometer there. the VALUE, not just the COST, of gas or stamps or cars has changed a lot more than the VALUE of music has. To be fair, I think the price of music is probably growing UNDER the rate of inflation as it gets more competitive - hell, vinyl costs up to $40 or $50 new nowadays sometimes - but still. the idea of getting an o for the price of three records blows my mind. 'specially since I downloaded probably ten albums this morning...

Spexxvet · 03-28-2012, 01:55 PM

In '80/'81, a friend and I would but a 1/2 pound for $240 ($30/oz), each keep an ounce, sell 6 oz to a Haverford College Student (who lived on Bryn Mawr campus) for $240 ($40/oz) who sold 5 oz for $50 each. We did this about every 3 weeks. I don't remember much of '80 to '84. Then I started having bad reactions, and have smoked about 4 times since '84. I miss it.

Ibby · 03-28-2012, 01:57 PM

My vice today. It's so good but it's making me so pudgy. ugh.

Spexxvet · 03-28-2012, 01:58 PM

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Originally Posted by wolf

I am unable to dredge up from my memory how we referred to having expended all the smokable product ... kicked, maybe? Guess that shit does cause memory impairment.

Beat. This bowl is beat.

Gravdigr · 03-28-2012, 03:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Gravdigr

I'll be back later,

I fergot.

Gravdigr · 03-28-2012, 03:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Spexxvet

Beat. This bowl is beat.

"Still alive?"

"Nope, it's burnt."

"Really?"

"Cold as kraut."

"Shit, man."

Ibby · 03-28-2012, 04:15 PM

well let's see you do better then

be-bop · 03-28-2012, 05:35 PM

When we were young and stupid you very rarely saw grass it was more hashish which was very expensive, i seem to remember was about £60-£80 an ounce in the early 80's.
that would depend on the type.

I miss getting stoned

be-bop · 03-28-2012, 05:43 PM

Now everyone is growing their own, the trend is now renting out property hot wiring the electrics and having cannabis farms.
police now fly over suspected places with heat seeking equipment checking properties for excess hot spots.

there was a flat a couple of streets away from where i live got busted and they carted away plants and estimated the crop would have been worth around £30,000

03-28-2012, 12:23 PM	#31
Ibby erika Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: "the high up north" Posts: 6,127	What else would 15 (or 30 wolf) buy back then? what's that in todays money? __________________ not really back, you didn't see me, i was never here shhhhhh

03-28-2012, 12:46 PM	#32
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	6 cartons of cigarettes. Or a bottle of Jack Daniels and 4 cartons. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

03-28-2012, 01:11 PM	#33
Ibby erika Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: "the high up north" Posts: 6,127	gosh but cigarettes are so much more expensive now too. how many LPs would it buy? how much was a 2-liter soda? what'd ordering a pizza cost? __________________ not really back, you didn't see me, i was never here shhhhhh

03-28-2012, 01:13 PM	#34
Big Sarge Werepandas - lurking in your shadows Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: In the Deep South Posts: 3,408	Tsk, Tsk! Ya'll are a bunch of hardened criminals. Dope fiends caused by reefer madness. __________________ Give a man a match, & he'll be warm for 20 seconds. But toss that man a white phosphorus grenade and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

03-28-2012, 01:45 PM	#37
Ibby erika Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: "the high up north" Posts: 6,127	oh yeah. pre-plastic-bottles. sheeeit. but 5-dollar LP is a good barometer. How much did ordering, say, a large pepperoni pizza cost? still, wow. 3 albums / oz. If you assume that an album now is two to three times that, give or take, that SHOULD mean that it should be thirty to fifty bucks an o nowadays. daaaamn. edit: that is to say, i think the price of music is an important barometer there. the VALUE, not just the COST, of gas or stamps or cars has changed a lot more than the VALUE of music has. To be fair, I think the price of music is probably growing UNDER the rate of inflation as it gets more competitive - hell, vinyl costs up to $40 or $50 new nowadays sometimes - but still. the idea of getting an o for the price of three records blows my mind. 'specially since I downloaded probably ten albums this morning... __________________ not really back, you didn't see me, i was never here shhhhhh Last edited by Ibby; 03-28-2012 at 01:51 PM.

03-28-2012, 01:55 PM	#38
Spexxvet Makes some feel uncomfortable Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 10,346	In '80/'81, a friend and I would but a 1/2 pound for $240 ($30/oz), each keep an ounce, sell 6 oz to a Haverford College Student (who lived on Bryn Mawr campus) for $240 ($40/oz) who sold 5 oz for $50 each. We did this about every 3 weeks. I don't remember much of '80 to '84. Then I started having bad reactions, and have smoked about 4 times since '84. I miss it. __________________ "I'm certainly free, nay compelled, to spread the gospel of Spex. " - xoxoxoBruce

03-28-2012, 01:57 PM	#39
Ibby erika Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: "the high up north" Posts: 6,127	My vice today. It's so good but it's making me so pudgy. ugh. Attached Images __________________ not really back, you didn't see me, i was never here shhhhhh

03-28-2012, 04:15 PM	#43
Ibby erika Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: "the high up north" Posts: 6,127	well let's see you do better then __________________ not really back, you didn't see me, i was never here shhhhhh

03-28-2012, 05:35 PM	#44
be-bop Operations Operative Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: scotland/uk Posts: 664	When we were young and stupid you very rarely saw grass it was more hashish which was very expensive, i seem to remember was about £60-£80 an ounce in the early 80's. that would depend on the type. I miss getting stoned Attached Images

03-28-2012, 05:43 PM	#45
be-bop Operations Operative Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: scotland/uk Posts: 664	Now everyone is growing their own, the trend is now renting out property hot wiring the electrics and having cannabis farms. police now fly over suspected places with heat seeking equipment checking properties for excess hot spots. there was a flat a couple of streets away from where i live got busted and they carted away plants and estimated the crop would have been worth around £30,000

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