Sometimes we try to do something for the greater good, maybe to illustrate a point, and events get out of hand, like when Josh Scott shone a spotlight on the largely unloved DigiTech Bad Monkey overdrive pedal in a segment for the JHS Pedals YouTube show that reminded, or rather alerted players to the fact that this pedal was cheap but actually really good, only for price to spike.
Scott was doing a good deed, but in today’s world no good deed goes unpunished. Nothing seems to resist inflation. Certainly milk and eggs, and not the Bad Monkey either. The Bad Monkey skyrocketed in price. The market got out of control. Sure you could buy a Bad Monkey that Gary Moore owned for $10,000 and we could all understand that (that listing has since been slashed by 51 per cent, so if you’ve still got the Blues For Greeny and the green for Bad Monkey…) but there were some crazy prices listed.
