I'm with Blast. Buy good socks when they're on sale and buy extras when they are. No matter how fat or thin you get you're always going to need the same socks.

My sock drawer is a mish mash of socks. Other than the black dress socks I wear to work, every other pair is different and all the major brands are represented..Fox, Wigwam, Wright, etc. Some are very expensive which normally sell for over $10 a pair but were only 2-4 bucks a pair because I waited for the bargains. Now that I have extras I have put a pair in each of my car kits as warm and dry spares and stored permanently in my gear where I'll use them.

I wish I had socks in the car last summer. I went into a walmart in August and while I was in there it rained and hailed...lucky me I parked right over the drain that backed up and had to wade knee deep water to get to my Jeep.