Exhaust gaskets, worth spending the big bucks

[texanidiot25]

I have NO choice to stick with headers, it's what the truck was setup for. No manifolds crap, or I'll Ram Horn my headers up your exhaust ports.

Are the thick soft metal gaskets (aluminum) worth spending the 20-some-odd bucks on to super seal the collectors and heads? Right now I have the cheapy gaskets that came with my headers, and paper ones as well from when I had to pull off a header while doing some other work. Of course it leaks now.

Good news is, I'm hired again and the 1st thing Im doing is gaskets, so if you have a solid suggestion that I can find in an autoparts store, post'em