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  “No, you can’t always get what you want”   The Rolling Stones (1969)   Well, I most certainly  wanted  this...     ...and indeed, I got it!   “You can’t  always  get what you want” is not the same as saying “you  never  get what you want.   That said, the quoted lyric, will often ring true!   By way of a relatively unimportant (but recent) example:   Having acquired that lovely Gibson Les Paul, I decided that it needed a (very expensive!) Vox valve amplifier to go with it...   Now, it’s not that I needed another guitar amp. I just felt that the new guitar warranted a significant upgrade.   Of course, the pictured amplifier, would have been such a thing.   In a sense therefore, this is another thing that I  wanted.   BUT   Maybe my existing amplifier is perfectly  good enough,  and there isn’t, any need to spend an extra £  enormous !   On, gratefully received, a...