We remember the first CD we ever bought: Guns N’ Roses’ “Appetite for Destruction.” Used.

It’d be months after that before we acquired our first CD player, but we weren’t in any hurry. We already had this hair-metal masterpiece on cassette, anyway. The main thing was that we wanted to be inoculated against either end of the argument our mom always used when we asked for new electronic gear.

“What do you want a CD player for? You don’t have any CDs.” Alternately: “Why do you want CDs? You don’t have anything to play them on.”

Whatever that scratched-up, second-hand disc cost, it was a bargain, ‘cause it took all the steam out of that deadly, two-headed argument. The digital music age was fully upon us! We weren’t going to stand by for years while our mom slowly common-sensed our music collection into obsolescence!

Somewhere out there, there’s a woot user with some form of mom’s paradoxical reasoning rattling around in his or her head, too. It’s kept this poor soul from picking up a digital camera or a photo printer for years now. Why buy a digital camera, after all, with no way to print your photos? For that matter, why buy a photo printer if you haven’t any photos to print?

Flounder in velleity no longer, ye weak-willed wimp! This woot bundle pairs camera with printer so with one confident click, you can buy them both simultaneously, and plant yourself feet-first into the main stream of the digital picture-making revolution.

Sure, neither of these items is likely to make the neighbors jealous—unless you live in a more destitute neighborhood than we presume—but the point here isn’t to grab top-of-the-line gear. The point is to solve the problem of your consumer paralysis and get you up to speed, Apollo Creed. Here’s what you’re looking at:

First, a Lexmark printer—it’s perfectly serviceable, with USB interface and high definition color printing (up to 4800 dpi). It’s fast, too, churning out 4”x6” photos faster than you can say “Jack Robinson,” provided your stuttering problem is sufficiently severe that saying “Jack Robinson” takes you over 38 seconds.

Like the printer, the accompanying camera bears a sub-prestigious brand name. (We think of them as two ugly ducklings who’ve found love together.) Still, it snaps a respectable quintuple-mega-pixel image, sports a 4x digital zoom, and you can expand its memory with an SD card (not included) up to 512MB.

So stop already with this perverse “what-do-I-buy-first” chicken-or-egg conundrum. Can’t you see it’s kept you cameraless and printerless too long? Pick up this bundle and start dealing with a much simpler problem: which of these components to UPGRADE first.

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