Electric guitars, new unibody and garageband 09

This is my first Mac. I bought the Macbook Pro 13" and one of the things I wanted to do was hook an electric guitar up too it and run it through garage bang and use headphones too... But alas with the new unibodies and the SD card slot they combined the mic and headphone jack. sooo how am I supposed to do this. Has anyone come up with any good/cheap ideas?
Thanks,
Daniel

http://www.bulletsandbones.com/GB/FAQPages/PlugInGuitar.html

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