well, I love my Bogen stand. They're available in a multitude of heights from sonicsense.com. Barring that, I taped for years using a basic "onstage" mic stand, available at any music retailer. Heavy as a bastard, but it did double as a club a couple times when I taped rock shows in Chicago
Re: the yardsale, this should work quite nicely...great price too.
http://www.taperssection.com/yabbse/index.php?topic=20318.0Basically, don't get too worked up about a stand. Seeing as how you need one sooner rather than later, I'd just get what works.
Re: T Bar, I used this one from SProfessionals for a long time as well. I still have it, actually. It's meant to accept the exact kind of mics you just bought (using the windscreens that came with your mics). 5/8" thread screws onto most every stand you can buy.
http://www.soundprofessionals.com/cgi-bin/gold/category.cgi?category=360&item=SP-DTS-12&type=storeSo. There you go. More money to spend....But, you'll be really happy once you elevate those mics up above the heads of the masses. It cuts chatter/broken beer bottle sounds down by 85%, at least.
If they don't play "Weed King" this last tour I'm gonna go up and kick Pollard in the nuts.
EDIT: Oh, and the "tickets" thing is explained in the archives. You can't give em or take em till you have 50 posts. It's kind of fun, though.