What Every Young String Player Needs

In a discontinued color.  Fuuuuccckk.  It's the kid bike tragedy playing out all over again.  The problem is that the first-choice color, some metallic pinkish, is not available locally, so I may have to go online to buy an inexpensive fucking guitar, which is as bad an idea as you can have, and the very cool local luthier/music store owner doesn't get the sale.  The Fender short scale basses are available locally, but, one, no pink, and, two, they are cheap looking and sounding.  I may luck into a sweet deal on a cherry, low-mileage model or not.  I've played the Ibanez a bit, and it is way better, and the kid likes it better, too.  Discontinued color.  Bastards.