Yean, the pipe is not a $50 pipe, but it is your first (i am assuming) and you will be very bummed out when it is gone. Mine first was stolen out of my car, along with my weed, CD's, stereo, and radar detector. All of that stuff was replaced, but i will never have a same pipe. Those dudes made out. Don't drop it on anything hard, like concrete or tile.

Abou them changing, the glass has faint colors in it and when the inside get caked with dark resin it brings those colors out.