Gearlive, through a hands-on, has finally figured out why the white version of the Monster Beats cost twice as much as the standard black version. It’s coated by Colorware.
If there’s a company out there that engages in price gouging more blatantly than Monster, I’ve never heard of them. Today’s offense: charging $US700 for a pair of $US350 headphones painted white.
Dr. Dre and Monster just dropped the in-ear version of their Beats headphones, which cost $US150 and are tangle free. Now they’re waiting for you to pick it up.
Originally I was going to write this post about the local launch of the Monster Beats headphones in rap-format – you know, because of the whole Dr. Dre connection – but then I realised that doing so would not only offend any rappers with an inkling of talent out there, but also the global white population for such a terrible attempt at humour. So instead, I decided to write about the Australian arrival of the Dr. Dre Beats headphones in the only poetic artform my heritage as any experience in: The Limerick.