I feel kinda guilty.   I may have wished for this.   When we bought my washer,  we bought the cheapest thing that Best Buy had.  Literally.  
And it's been making some funny sounds for quite a while now.   We'll last week it finally died.   And troubleshooting with the repair man came to the conclusion it would be about $750 to fix it.   Way more than we paid.  
Off to Lowes we ran.  I was cheering.  Lol.   And I am in love with my new set.  :)