It’s easy to get obsessed by Value For Money. Between sales, buying one and getting one free, and thinking that credit card companies are saving you money, it’s easy to get confused.
Take polyphonic ring tones for example. Firstly, they’re just an annoying way of letting everyone know that you haven’t answered a phone. Secondly, they sound like your favourite chart hit murdered by Raw Sex on a third hand eighties Casio keyboard. So how come I just spent twenty minutes downloading crappy polyphonic ring tone midi files from PhunkyPhones? It’s because I thought that you weren’t supposed to be able to, but they’d slipped up and made everything available. I thought I was getting free crap. I thought I was getting VFM. If I spent twenty minutes at work actually working, or even in a fast food outlet working, I could earn enough money to buy them.
No hang on. They’re five dollars each. Maybe it is cheaper to download them (even though they are abhorent renditions of MC Hammer songs), I am getting VFM. Back to page 23 of 35. Abba’s SOS. Bet that sounds great.