Recording/amplifying my clical guitar?

I've done this on the cheap by just buying a decent microphone, running it into the line-in on my sound card, and using Audacity (free download) to record on the computer. You could spend a lot more money getting a good setup, but if you have a good mic and put it about a foot from the front of your guitar you'll get a pretty accurate reproduction of the clical guitar tone. Running it through a lot of electronic gizmos and into your USB port will only diminish the pure clical guitar sound.