Dead Strings

Not as deep sounding as Dead Souls (you can take that as a Gogol reference or a Joy Division reference if you want), but that's what I have on my bass right now. The vexing thing is that I can never find the strings I like. Sometimes The Twelfth Fret has them, but they are difficult to get to from where I live; very rarely Long & McQuade also has them. What's doubly vexing though is that Long & McQuade has several packs of the right type of strings (DR Sunbeams) but all in the wrong gauge (I like .040s, they have .045s). So yes, it vexes me, I'm terribly vexed.