Community: The Complete First Season for $12.99

I know it's not really worth getting worked-up over, but I am constantly bothered by the fact that millions of people tune into garbage like Glee, Grey's Anatomy, and American Idol week-after-week while quality tv shows like Arrested Development and Freaks and Geeks are met with early cancelations after struggling to find their audiences despite critical acclaim. Community, which premiered on NBC last fall, is another show that falls into the category of a quality television program with low ratings. If you're at all curious to check it out you can head over to the show's Hulu page where they've got a few episodes and clips available for free viewing or, if you're smart, you can take my word for it and blind-buy the first season by clicking here.

For whatever reason, the pre-order price has been slashed from the regular MSRP of $39.95 to $17.99, which is already a great deal. However, by typing in the coupon code SONYFIVE, you'll get an additional five dollars off of the set which means you'll be paying roughly fifty cents per episode. The only real downside here is that Amazon's free shipping doesn't kick in until the twenty-five dollar mark, but I'm sure you can find something else on the site to pick up around twelve bucks.

Again, it's a great show and I really can't imagine anyone picking this up and not getting more than their fair share of laughs from it (especially considering the price), so give it a chance and thank me later.

EDIT

While you're at it, Amazon is currently offering up a free trial to Amazon Prime for students (or anyone with a university e-mail) for an entire year. That means unlimited two-day shipping for free regardless of order size and, if you can't wait two days, an easy upgrade to one-day shipping for $3.99 per item. Thanks to whoever it was that mentioned this in the comment section!

Another Great Deal for Super Mario Galaxy 2

Super Mario Galaxy is easily the must-own title of the Nintendo Wii. The graphics, gameplay mechanics, and motion controls are essentially perfect and the game is more or less a sequel to Super Mario 64 which was one of my favorite games growing up. Since the original has sold almost nine million copies over the last few years and was universally praised by every single critic that has ever played it I figured that at least one or two of you might own it and might be interested in its sequel.

Amazon.com occasionally runs deals for pre-ordering games and they're currently doing a pretty amazing one for Super Mario Galaxy 2. Placing an order on-line will not only get the game shipped to you for free once it's released, but it will also add $20 to your Amazon.com account toward the purchase of a future video game. So if you were already planning on picking this title up and were also planning on picking up another video game at some point again in your life for either the Wii or any other console, then click here (or on the image link) and enjoy!

Purchase Daria: The Complete Series for Thirty Bucks

Head's up! One of my favorite shows is available for cheap by mistake!

After years of putting it off in favor of focusing on such quality programming as The Real World/Road Rules Challenge: Fresh Meat 2, 16 and Pregnant, and The Hills, Mtv made the announcement back in January that they would finally be releasing a complete collection of their critically-acclaimed animated series, Daria. However, when the product began showing up as "in stock" on Amazon.com yesterday, it was listed at almost fifty dollars less than the MSRP. I really doubt that this is intentional and they'll probably have this fixed within twenty-four hours, but knowing Amazon.com's customer service if you manage to place an order before they fix the price they'll honor it AND ship it out to you for free since the order is over twenty-five bucks.

The link I've included to the item shows it as $44.99 (another reason why I assume that this is a mistake) but visiting the actual page and putting the item in your cart/checking out should show it as $27.99.

Best of luck and let me know if it works for you.

Purchase Windows 7 for only $29.99

Just a head's up, from now until January 5th, 2010 college students have the opportunity to purchase Windows 7 for for just $29.99 instead of the regular $119.99 that it usually retails for. So if you're running Vista (or even if you still have XP like I do) and are looking to upgrade your PC now's the perfect time to do it. Click here to see if your computer is compatible with Windows 7.