[Saccharomyces]

So what you're saying is that homebrewing isn't the first hobby that hipsters have done their best to suck the fun out of? 

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Actually, there are multiple tiers of instruments, but neither manufacturers' pro-level instruments have ever been cheap. Gibson went through a bad patch when I was a teenager (1970s) due to Norlin's mismanagement.  Poor quality allowed a skinny bespeckled young Marylander named Paul Smith to set a completely different level of quality with Paul Reed Smith (PRS) Guitars.  Gibson was on its death bed in the eighties.  Had it not been for Slash recording Appetite for Destruction with a Kris Derig-built Les Paul copy, many believe that Gibson would have gone belly up. Gibson Historics are actually cheap when compared PRS Private Stock instruments.   A Private Stock Dragon runs $20K. 

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[RPIScotty]

So what you're saying is that homebrewing isn't the first hobby that hipsters have done their best to suck the fun out of? 

<should be moved to the pub>

Actually, there are multiple tiers of instruments, but neither manufacturers' pro-level instruments have ever been cheap. Gibson went through a bad patch when I was a teenager (1970s) due to Norlin's mismanagement.  Poor quality allowed a skinny bespeckled young Marylander named Paul Smith to set a completely different level of quality with Paul Reed Smith (PRS) Guitars.  Gibson was on its death bed in the eighties.  Had it not been for Slash recording Appetite for Destruction with a Kris Derig-built Les Paul copy, many believe that Gibson would have gone belly up. Gibson Historics are actually cheap when compared PRS Private Stock instruments.   A Private Stock Dragon runs $20K. 

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