Indulgences

Blender magazine has a list of ultimate rock star indulgences. Unfortunately the list isn’t online, but some of them are mentioned in this USA Today article:

Topping the list in the December issue, on newsstands today, is Elvis' well-known cravings for peanut butter, jelly and fried bacon on a buttered loaf. In 1976, he spent $3,387.28 for 22 "Fool's Gold" sandwiches, which included flying to Denver with some pals.

•No. 4. Mick Fleetwood estimated that a line of all the cocaine he ever ingested would cost $8 million and stretch about 5 miles.

•No. 12. Bono paid a mere $1,700 to fly his favorite hat from London to Italy for a 2003 benefit with Luciano Pavarotti. The rocker's chapeau rode in the cockpit.

•No. 36. Tommy Lee paid $4,000 in 1999 to put a Starbucks franchise in his home for Pamela Anderson.

In what kinds of things do you indulge?

I tend to indulge more in things that are bad for me than on the everyday basics. For example, other people may blow $100 on a Chantal tea kettle that they’ll use every day. That’s a lot of money for a damn tea kettle, but it’s not horrific if you use it a lot. I spent nearly $300 on a custom made set of flasks with its own leather carrying case that I’ve used about four times, so that’s pretty dumb.

I’ll spend $120 for a pair of Lacoste sneakers but won’t buy a clothes for work that cost more than 20 bucks each, (including pants). And I would more readily shell out hundreds of dollars for an ashtray when I don’t smoke than a bus pass for transit I ride daily.

I thought I was retarded, but seeing this list makes me wonder if I’m just a rock star in training.