Well for $40-50, you can get the now-somewhat-hard-to-find-in-stores Hori EX2 arcade stick which was THE stick before the MadCatz ones came out.
It was also rebranded as the offiical Soul Calibur 4 and Virtua Fighter 5 (same sticks, just different artwork on box & stick)
You could aso trade in $60 worth of used video games to Amazon.com and they will give you a bonus $30 credit to make it $90 total, then you could get a TE stick for a mere $60 more