Possible Clues:

• Costing almost nothing
• Sordid material, base, secured by bloke for next to nothing
• Really inexpensive
• Read pitch badly, when going for a song
• Spiteful gossip about pile going for a song
• Eccentric hat priced as a bargain?
• Tired chap worried for nothing really
• Scandal man's kept under hat, not causing much damage
• Hat priced badly, going for a song
• Super-affordable channel crop slightly overlapped