It's crunch time if you want to avoid mall madness and get things shipped out for the holidays. I did a bit of fussing for your benefit, so take advantage.

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UNDER $25:
IceBot Cell Phone Charm - $4
Kid Robot put out these bot-tastic cell phone charms so you can flaunt them while taking cameraphone pictures at your next show.

Poo Santa - $6
Poo and fart jokes are timelessly funny.

Sonic Youth - The Destroyed Room: B-Sides and Rarities - $15
This new release of obscure material from Sonic Youth is not for the name-droppers.

Pavement - Wowee Zowee: Sordid Sentinels
Third in a series of goodie-packed 2-disc album reissues from these smart-assed indie darlings. Some Malkmus-tastic songs like "Give It A Day" and "No More Kings."


UNDER $60:
Griffin iKaraoke - $50
I hate karaoke bars. I hate listening to stupidhead lounge singers sing songs I don't recognize because I never paid attention to my mom's soft rock repertoire. With this small iKaraoke gizmo, any song from your iPod becomes karaoke-ready from your stereo. After all, it's going to be a long time before Bright Eyes shows up on a karaoke catalog.

Guitar Pick Earrings - $53
Wear just one and relive the 80's! Or ironically mock the decade if you were still breast-feeding in 1985.

Built By Wendy Custom Guitar Straps - $40
Wendy Mullin has finally revamped her guitar strap line to include some more up-to-date materials and colors. In the 90's Courtney Love, Sonic Youth, and yours truly sported these straps in their patent-leather-and-glitter glory days. The bet part is that you can customize them, which is sure to touch even the ingrateful Johnny Rotten in your life.

Buy a British Title - $??
For the person who's obsessed with Oasis and pretends to dig Razorlight on the mere premise that they're big in Britain. You can buy them a Lordship or Ladyship for only 27 pounds! (The currency rate sucks, so this translates to about $600.)


UNDER $200:
Assemble-Your-Own Theremin Kit - $95
A theremin is the instrument that makes melodic, ghostly sounds based on how your hand interacts with it. That sounds dirty.

The Clash: Singles Box Set(vinyl) - $83
A perfect reproduction of nineteen 7-inch singles from the Clash. For those who don't do vinyl, here's the CD version.

iPod DJ Mixing Console - $110
Working real turntables takes time and skill...pick this up for your friend and he/she could be iPod DJing in the Lower East Side before you can say "Ultragrrl."

Atech Flash iPod Stereo Dock AND Toilet Paper Holder - $90
Awesome and completely impractical. I predict that in 2007 some drunkard will wipe his ass with his iPod.


TOO RICH FOR YOUR OWN GOOD:
Minimoog Voyager in Electric Blue - $3395
Forget the Maroon 5 and Black Eyed Peas references on the site and think Brian Eno. This awesome new model of Moog has a 3D touch surface that you can use to control the sound with your finger based on pressure/location. Nerd the fuck out.