I think exactly what you typed. For ME, it isn't worth it. For others, whatever. So, I have a love/whateverish relationship w/ them. On the one side I THEORETICALLY like them, but at the same time (I think it has do do w/ the fact now I'm 30), sometimes I kinda have a hard time taking people who have them seriously (and I'd say 1/2 my "real" friends have them) precisely b/c of what you typed... especially since many of the people I know have them don't really extra dough to spend on crap, but in the end anyone does whatever they want w/ whatever money they got and their body, hence my "whatever" attitude towards them. It's like people who spend too much money on high-fashion, same thing... like spending hundreds just for the sake of cultivating an IMAGE. But then again, maybe for them it's really important to have symbols on their bodies that represent their aesthetic ideas or their ideas about life, etc.