Cheap Date

Cheap Date is a compendium of articles from the original UK magazine of the same name. A truly great work; articles on dumpster diving, lingerie through the ages, interviews with Gene Simmons of KISS and Anita Pallenberg; too many cool things to mention.

I quote from A Note From the Editor: "Originally CHEAPDATE was basically about second hand clothes, but anti-fashion,anti-'lifestyle' and alternative consumer concepts followed soon after, and finally it became a big up-yours to something intangible but there." This is an optimistic way of saying that the book contained disappointingly little on "charity shopping," focusing more strongly on quirky things, like an interview with a blackjack player and a cartoon penis saying what it likes regarding women (what types of shoes, etc).