I think I paid $25 for a music wristband in 1990. I realize that inflation has driven up prices over the past 24 years, but damn… $25 wasn’t that much in 1990. (I have a weird (non-) benchmark for inflation, though, which is that a Hot Wheels or Matchbox vehicle costs $1 today, and it cost $1 when I started buying them in the 70s.)
A friend of mine won wristbands for (what I recall was) the very first SXSW Film Festival, so we got to go for free – and I just realized that it was 20 years ago. ♫ Old rockin’ chair’s got me ♫ Cane by my side ♫
