What you can do is remember that item for when Xmas rolls around. Ask "Santa" to get you one for being good..... :bounce:DOH! You are right.. Those are not cheap!
My nostromo keys were so hard to push, and I had heard from others that they do "soften" in time, and I had mashed down those keys over and over, even tried oiling them, and still they made my fingers hurt after a few hours of playing UT. Other than that, it would have been a good thing to use.