Trade 40: Receiver for Skittles

As a young man in university, I befriended a couple of audiophiles during my co-op work terms. I couldn’t help but be jealous of the carefully assembled, pricey component stereo sound systems they’d built.

But I couldn’t afford that sort of expenditure, so I never got around to replacing the adequate, but comparatively underpowered bookshelf system my generous parents gifted to me.

And all these years later, I could never really justify putting together a sound system, because I don’t listen to music enough. When I saw this post however, I thought perhaps Bunz might be a way to finally scrabble something together, for practically nothing.

You can’t argue with free, right?

I threw in some Skittles to make it a nominal trade:

Like the peacoat jacket, exchanging the receiver for some candy was a pretty sweet deal no matter how you look at it.

I don’t know what receivers go for these days, but it used to be a piece of audio equipment like this cost hundreds of dollars.

What I need now is a decent pair of speakers...

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