Possible Clues:

• Playing techno, that man has a piano for a song
• Low cost, probably by cutting corners
• Weird phone chat around Spain at basement rate?
• Awful tech in a phone badly produced at minimal expense
• Economising for a time, head off to the City and get a pile
• At a low cost
• Distraught, he can't hope to get off lightly
• Inexpensively (sl.)
• High tech phone - answer received with minimal cost
• Leader of council's brought in place for rubbish at little cost