As the topic states, I love wasteful people, I love rich assholes that can throw money, literally, down a garbage chute and not care because today, I found something in the garbage and it still works 
I was out back on my break, when another tenant was tossing their trash and they found the tv face down in the garbage. I asked the guy if he wanted dibs and he said “probably busted anyway, take it if you want it”. Not the highest rez monitor out there but functional. I get very excited when I find stuff like this and it still works, now I just gotta wait for some rich kid to get bored and toss out his music/midi/usb gear! 
Well, that’s why quite a few folks do dumpster diving…
But i have the same problems with leftover computers from work. they still work, but they are old and i have already done all my friends and family a favor with a box so eventually, i ditch them to the recycle center.
Can’t sell them either, because no one would spend a dime for it.
I’ve got some old stuff from my faculty too. An old computer for game developers (dell xp something) with a few grapic cards I’ve put in my own desktop computer now and two sceens. I love screens. Screens.
I can appreciate the size and layout of your home studio td6d and I will likely duplicate it as I head through 2014. Eventually I will have to upgrade to a similar midi controller. 
The start of 2013 financially crippled me and put me in an awkward living situation, at least I’m not ‘homeless’ and I’ve had to downgrade to using a folding 4 legged wobbly table; I had to give away all of my furniture, personally modified desks for home studio included. If I actually had room, I’d just sit on the floor with “borrowed” milk crates & cinderblocks like I did when I was a couch surfing punk.
The radioshack 76 key casio clone is a bit cumbersome but, functional and it was FREE - a guy 400 miles away was cleaning out his storage container, he gave it to one friend, that friend gave it to me and I found an adapter for it. All of my sound equipment is second hand from other friends and musicians that upgraded over the years - the studio pro monitors were free, the m-audio 1010lt sound card, I bought off the frontman of CRL studios for $60 and I’ve since had to return to the forums to figure out what driver version I used along with settings because the SID was corrupted on this machine and I had to do a full reinstall with new partitions - the machine recognizes the sound card but now the drivers don’t want to bridge the gap… all of the current pc hardware is gear that I built back in 2006, fairly bare bones, I had to upgrade my video card twice; once in 2009 when the on-board video controller burned out and most recently in the last couple of weeks since the video card’s heat sink & fan failed; the card became so hot that it began to melt - the only reason I noticed is because my screen began flickering and I thought I smelled blue smoke…
I just recently maxed the ram on this pc - you may or may not have an idea of how difficult it seems to be to find ddr2 ram in pairs of 4gb sticks under $179 - it sucks and is relatively difficult to avoid price gouging. Kingston was the lesser of many evils. I hope my thrift shopping does not bite me in the ass later. Alaska, great place to visit but, fairly expensive versus the rest of the continental United States to live and purchase goods/services, sometimes difficult to get certain items online because some companies do not recognize Alaska as part of the US 
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I recently built another machine using a server chassis; it will strictly be the music machine with Renoise and other audio engineering software, the amount of work and hardware I put into it for sound will probably keep me going for the next decade, whenever I build something, I try to make it beat the long odds. This current machine (the one in the picture) will be the coding and video sandbox.
An associate introduced me to some developer software called UNITY and I’m pinching my pennies to acquire general licensing for it because I want to make my own little games and soundtracks for those games. I like the idea that the Linux/Android license basically opens up the arena to make a viable game with a kickass soundtrack for indie gaming like the OUYA. Another hobby to help me field insanity during the long winters! 
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Immortality in music is no longer defined by a marketed face in a band and how many discographies they can punch out before they burn out - as session artists, studio artists, coders, circuit benders & curious onlookers, we now have the opportunity to carve our niche in audio/visual splendor!