What someone paid for a Putney or an 808 years ago is pretty much
irrelevant. You have to live in the present as far as equipment goes.
An 808 was posted on analogue heaven for $550, so relatively good
deals are out there.
For that matter, relatively cheap digital drum machines can produce
interesting sounds if helped by a few effects. Check
http://soli.inav.net/~kent/music/chair.ram (real audio 3.0). All the
drum sounds came originally from samples on my computer.
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"Psyche manifests as psychic through something we call 'winding',
because it twists, and puts things that were far apart next to
each other, complicatedly, taffywise." -- winona on channel 78
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