Don't laugh, but after about 12 years hard use, I finally traded in my little old Peavey Envoy at a pawn shop a few months ago....on a secondhand Marshall!
It's one of their cheap Indian built transistor models called an MG50DFX- 50 watt, 1x 12 combo with built-in effects - delay, reverb, chorus, flange, tandoori, tikka marsala, korma etc etc (sorry about that)
Seriously though, using my cheapo Squier Tele and old Korean Strat copy, the delay/echo and reverb, the wide range of tones available on the 'clean' channel gives some excellent Shads tones.
And I thought that as people like Jet, Bert and Joe Brown use Marshalls, they can't be too bad!
After the trade-in, teh change-over to the Marshall cost me $295- about 150 pounds Sterling- and after a couple of gigs, it has paid for itself....
I certainly wasn't looking specifically to buy a Marshall, but there aren't many secondhand Vox, Roland amps etc around in pawnshops- you have to take what you can get...