Since I’m pretty sure no one but Jeffy reads this anymore, perhaps this is a tad redundant, but I don’t really care. The aforementioned Jeffy (hi Jeff, love the blog) frequents all sorts of weird music message boards. The sorts of places where — and I’m totally picturing this — people argue over which Radiohead song is the best to masturbate to, and whether 9/11 was predicted by subliminal messages hidden in old Jello Biafra records. You know the type; they always — and I mean always — like the shittiest, most obscure Beatles songs, and invariably have some sort of love for an obscure sub-genre of music that borders on fetishism (”Oh really? You’re really into stereophonic recordings of elk farts played over old Patsy Cline tunes? Wow! How novel!”)

Now, normally I have no use for these people, other than to excitedly ask if they’ve heard the great new Taking Back Sunday record. But apparently one of them came through with a list of how much it costs to get your favorite band to come to your college. Which is weird, because I thought these sorts of people all had the same favorite band (you know, like Pavement or At The Drive In or something equally crappy).

It’s an interesting list, if only to see how much (and in some sad cases, how little) some of your favorite artists would make for a booking. Notable among them is some band called The Format. I’d never heard of them, but apparently they [only] charge 7.5-10k for a show. Why is this notable? Well, I’ve seen all of perhaps two episodes of “My Super Sweet 16″ (I even knew a girl who cast the show. It’s bad enough having to watch those people on TV, where you can at least turn them off if you get fed up. Can you imagine having it be your job to do nothing more than make sure those people are happy? I think I’d rather listen to stereophonic recordings of elk farts. Anyway, I digress….) The point is, on the one episode I saw, The Format was playing the party. It’s a little disappointing to think that some poor kid only got his dad to shell out a measly 10k for his daughter’s happiness. I swear, what is this country coming to?

Regardless, Jeffy sorted the list by booking cost (available as a large Excel file) and posed an interesting question: Who would you book if you had 50 grand to spend?

Personally, I came up with the following:
Jedi Mind Tricks 5-7.5K
DJ Vadim 3.5-5K
Goldie 5-7.5K
Amon Tobin 5K
Rhymefest 7.5-10K
Pharaohe Monche 7.5-10K

With the possible alternative of replacing Amon Tobin, Goldie and DJ Vadim with Lyrics Born and having the X-Ecutioners spin over the whole set.

Can you come up with a better set?