Pitchfork

Let's say you're the hapless roadie charged with gathering all the snapped guitar strings My Morning Jacket accrue during "Dondante". Slick with sweat and tangling in your natty beard, you pluck the noodle-makers from the fretboard and hand them over to the fine people at Relix Magazine. They, in turn, spin them-- fingernails and all-- into grimy metal rings to the delight of affluent hippies the world over. Sound like a dream job? Or just a staph infection waiting to happen?

For those of us unwilling to get that close to Jim James comes the Relix Band ("the perfect gift for dads who love music," we're told), a bracelet cobbled from used steel strings snapped from the necks of your favorite guitarists' trusty axes. Relix has lined up dozens of artists to contribute their garbage for the bracelets, from hippie legends like the Allman Brothers and Carlos Santana, to the light'n'mellow Guster, Maroon 5 and the Counting Crows, to metal dudes like Slayer's Kerry King and Black Label Society, and, oh yeah, some indie-friendly peeps, like the Shins' James Mercer, Death Cab's Ben Gibbard, Elvis Costello, and a couple guys apiece from Wolfmother and Weezer.

As if the idea of wearing dingy wires around your wrist wasn't bizarre enough, the Relix Band pricing seems to step out on reality in much the same way as the Relix Band product. The James Mercer and Jim James bracelets both cost the same amount as Maroon 5's Adam Levine's ($150)-- but all of them are $50 bucks less than John Mayer's ($200). Rivers Cuomo's bracelet will run you the same amount as Brian Bell's and Scott Shriner's ($125), and they all kick the shit out of Gibbard ($99). And nobody comes close to Tenacious D ($300)... except for Pete Townsend (also $300).

Sorry, Bon Jovi is sold out.

Proceeds from the sale of these bracelets will go to the charities Headcount, the Rex Foundation, Seva, and Rock'n'Wrap It Up!