What is wrong with my macbook screen?

For the last year I have been dealing with a screen that keeps going dark. If I tilt my screen down and back up it turns back on but if I open it too far it turns off. Then I will use it for a little while and it will go dark again, repeat. All day long I am wiggling my screen around trying to find the sweet spot so it will stay on. Anyone know whats wrong with it? Where should I take it?

I read some other posts where people were having the same issue, and apparently they took it to an apple store and it was fixed for only $45. That's actually not a bad price if you ask me, and I might end up doing that since my screen is just so bad.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3270723?start=0&tstart=0

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Run through them and stop after #16 or if the problem stops, or if something tells you something severe (like hardware test giving a error)
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http://i.imgur.com/Ya0r8.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/SFPLD.jpg
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