Guitar Guns-For-Hire

Hey, it's your birthday and you have money to incinerate. No E-Heads or Taken by Cars for you. You want the Brit pop or whatever. Not The Lettermen or the other washouts. You want Gnarls Barkley. OK, here's the price:

Bloc Party: $25-30,000

Common & N*E*R*D: $75-80,000

Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley: $60-75,000

Death Cab for Cutie: $75-80,000

Decemberists: $50,000

Drive-By Truckers & the Hold Steady: $25,000

Duffy: $15,000

Gnarls Barkley: $50-60,000

Hip-Hop Live! Talib Kweli, David Banner & Little Brother: $30-35,000

Kings of Leon: $35,000

Lupe Fiasco: $35-40,000

Matisyahu: $35-40,000

Menomena: $15-20,000

Method Man & Red Man: $35,000

Mogwai: $25,000

Panic At the Disco: $125-150,000

Ray LaMontagne: $35-40,000

Regina Spektor: $30-35,000

Robert Randolph and the Family Band: $35-40,000

Staind & Seether: $85-100,000

T-Pain: $40,000

The Bravery: $25,000

The Fratellis: $15-20,000

The National: $20-25,000

Third Eye Blind: $50-60,000

Vampire Weekend: $25-50,000 (depending on convenience to itinerary)

Wilco: $30-35,000

Willie Nelson w/Jakob Dylan: $80-100,000

Wyclef Jean: $60,000