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My parents knew I loved to play my digital drums, and they knew I wanted a real acoustic kit. When Christmas rolled around, they asked me what I wanted, I told them I only wanted money so I could begin saving up for the set I wanted, so hopefully later in the year I could have enough. I spent alot of time looking up the right set and cymbals. On Christmas day, my dad suprised me with a Tama Imperialstar. Its Ocean Mist Blue, and comes with Meinl HCS cymbals. Dont get me wrong, its a very nice set, and I'm very grateful and happy, but he did exactly what I didnt want him to do, which was go out and buy something he didnt have the first clue about. I originally planned on getting a Sound Percussion Pro 5-Piece in Wine Red with Black Hardware. It has a full hardware pack, even including 2 boom stands. Coming without cymbals, I chose Wuhan New Traditional cymbals, which comes with 14HH, 16C, 20R, and a 10S. Those are amazing and inexpensive cymbals. In the end it wouldve totaled to about $550. The Imperialstar was $700, and since it was an all-in-one beginner set, I have alot of upgrades I need to do. I need to change cymbals, heads, and I want to powdercoat the rims and lugs. I emailed a powder coating company, and they said they cant powdercoat the lugs, bass drum spurs, the tom holder, or any of the other chrome parts except for the rims, which would work. So black hardware which I love so much is out of the question. My dad told me that I'm in debt to him until I pay off the drums, which I didnt ask him to get in the first place. I need to change alot of the things on it, and some things cant even be changed. I'm not trying to be ungrateful, I would never want to. But does anyone else think I've been screwed over in a way?