Engadget's recession antidote: win a Klipsch HD Theater 500 sound system!

This whole global economic crisis, and its resulting massive loss of jobs got us thinking. We here at Engadget didn't want to stand helplessly by, announcing every new round of misery without giving anything back -- so we decided to take the opportunity to spread a little positivity. We'll be handing out a new gadget every day (except for weekends) to lucky readers until we run out of stuff / companies stop sending things. Today we've got a Klipsch HD Theater 500 5.1 sound system, ready to rattle the floor of one lucky domicile. Read the rules below (no skimming -- we're omniscient and can tell when you've skimmed) and get commenting! Hooray for free stuff!

Huge thanks to Klipsch for providing the gear!


The rules:

• Leave a comment below. Any comment will do, but if you want to share your proposal for "fixing" the world economy, that'd be sweet too.
  
• You may only enter this specific giveaway once. If you enter this giveaway more than once you'll be automatically disqualified, etc. (Yes, we have robots that thoroughly check to ensure fairness.)
• If you enter more than once, only activate one comment. This is pretty self explanatory. Just be careful and you'll be fine.
  
• Contest is open to anyone in the 50 States, 18 or older! Sorry, we don't make this rule (we hate excluding anyone), so be mad at our lawyers and contest laws if you have to be mad.
  
• Winner will be chosen randomly. The winner will receive one (1) Klipsch HD Theater 500 5.1-channel sound system. Approximate retail value is $599.99.
  
• If you are chosen, you will be notified by email. Winners must respond within three days of the end of the contest. If you do not respond within that period, another winner will be chosen.
• Entries can be submitted until Thursday, April 9th, at 11:59PM ET. Good luck!
• Full rules can be found here.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 12:22PM]

please!

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 1:50PM]

Sweeeeeeeeeeeet! I'd give my kidney if you'd pick me!

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 12:26PM]

Oh, I want, please thanks

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 12:30PM]

pretty please with sugar on top

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 12:28PM]

I'll take 7. Not 8. I don't want to be greedy. Please do not send me 8. I will feel like an ass.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 12:28PM]

Cor blimy guv'ner thats a nice set of speakers

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 12:29PM]

Gay fish

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 12:29PM]

Do Want

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 12:32PM]

hook me up....seriously

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 12:35PM]

Big money, no whammy!

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 12:36PM]

i'd love to win this

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 12:37PM]

Pick me! Pick me!

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 12:47PM]

MMM... guitar hero metallica (in surround sound!)

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 12:51PM]

Me me me!

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 12:39PM]

sign me up for one.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 12:38PM]

term limits

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 12:39PM]

This looks awesome!

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 1:16PM]

Mmmm.... Speaker goodness.... Aghhhh....

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 12:43PM]

memememememememememememememe

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 12:43PM]

I'm beginning to think I can't win.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 12:44PM]

Me like!. Please pick me!!!!

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 12:46PM]

fert!

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 3:27PM]

i like sound

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 12:45PM]

So many sounds

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 12:45PM]

nice!!!

[Steve Miller Posted Apr 9th 2009 12:59PM]

i wanna feel the noise...

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 12:45PM]

I need it bad, man!

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 12:48PM]

WOW PLEASE I NEED THIS!!!!!

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 12:45PM]

@Juancarlos - I sincerely hope that your comment wasn't meant as a potential economic solution to the ever-growing recession we're in? And I am not sure how the adage about teaching a man to fish vs. giving him a gay fish would apply. Ah well. Carpe Diem.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 12:46PM]

Please, thanks.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 10th 2009 8:46AM]

This would be so much better then my curent setup

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 12:47PM]

I wonder how much more cool stuff engadget is going to give away this is pretty cool.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 12:48PM]

Klipsch = L337

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 12:48PM]

Please and thank you in advance!

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 12:49PM]

I need to get my parents something nice for their anniversary... This would do the trick!

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 10th 2009 5:37AM]

Gimme Gimme!

[CN OBVIOUS Posted Apr 9th 2009 12:49PM]

If every donated 2 cents to the economy, then we could fix ours and europes.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 1:54PM]

Hope I win!!

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 7:46PM]

Yay!

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 12:51PM]

pleaseee.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 12:51PM]

Please oh please.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 12:51PM]

This would be awesome!

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 10th 2009 5:51PM]

SWEETNESS

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 12:52PM]

ill take one please

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 12:56PM]

yes I would like one so I can get kicked out of my apartment :)

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 10th 2009 10:59PM]

Me Please!

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 12:56PM]

My sound system is terrible. This would be a decent upgrade.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 1:12PM]

yo quiero

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 3:35PM]

oh yeah!

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 3:08PM]

I would like one, please.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 1:06PM]

thanks!

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 12:58PM]

hello!

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 12:58PM]

yes!

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 1:32PM]

I dont really need this, but I would take it anyday! :)

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 1:10PM]

yeah i guess it would be ok if i won these

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 1:08PM]

I'd like a shot at it.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 1:03PM]

Need? YES!

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 3:16PM]

thing do me want ya

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 1:10PM]

YES you can!

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 1:06PM]

Yeah, that would go well in my house...

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 1:05PM]

So very nice!

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 1:06PM]

might as well try too

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 1:06PM]

Everyone wants a surround sound system.....we're just too poor to get one.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 1:06PM]

woohooo free stuff.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 4:16PM]

As I have tried this comment many times with no success, again "your mother".

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 1:07PM]

OH YES!

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 1:13PM]

I need this, now!

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 1:08PM]

sock it to me

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 1:09PM]

I would like

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 1:10PM]

Thanks for doing this!

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 10:56PM]

Please please please!!

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 1:12PM]

Bail Me Out :)

[(Unverified) Posted May 7th 2009 1:24PM]

ME TOO!!!!

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 1:10PM]

Meee!

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 1:40PM]

Well gimme the speakers and I will be forced to buy copper wires hence lifting the economy with my purchase!

[BrandT Posted Apr 9th 2009 1:15PM]

i could use one of those fancy things.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 1:13PM]

If these sound half as good as they look, wow!

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 1:15PM]

come to butthead.

[Red Posted Apr 9th 2009 1:15PM]

Mmmm

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 1:19PM]

come to butthead

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 4:32PM]

This would be great for the basement.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 1:20PM]

C is for cookie, that's good enough for me.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 1:21PM]

inbox says please.

[Tonezorz Posted Apr 9th 2009 1:21PM]

If any one of these was the one to win, this would be it >_

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 1:22PM]

THIS IS WHAT I WANTED FOR SO LONG!!! please? pretty please?

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 1:22PM]

very nice, I would like those speakers!

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 1:22PM]

Boom Tho

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 1:22PM]

i'll take it

[munchies Posted Apr 9th 2009 1:22PM]

It will be mine. Oh yes.... .It will be mine.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 1:24PM]

Did I win? please say yes

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 2:15PM]

Count me in!

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 1:26PM]

Great Prize

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 1:28PM]

My wife would probably yell at me that it's too loud, but if you give me one I'll be good. Promise :)

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 1:26PM]

Mine?

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 1:27PM]

Yes, please. This would be awesome.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 1:28PM]

sweeeeeeeeeeet.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 1:30PM]

MINE???

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 1:30PM]

please please

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 1:33PM]

Yeah, I have no surround sound. Pick me!

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2009 1:34PM]

Want. And Need!