[Petahpie]

do you think this would be a good textbook to sort of couple with pimsleur?
I'm gonna try to rent or borrow pimsleur for japanese, cause there's no way I'm gonna buy it (the price is insane!).
I thought that I'd get genki 1 and pimsleur 1, and then go through both of them, getting the second textbook and second/third pimsleur set as I go. Figured that would get me to where I could figure where to go from there.
Any other recommendations, while I'm opening my wallet?

EDIT: I'm learning the hiragana, but other than that, I'm completely new to the language other than what I've heard from anime/j-music.

EDIT: and also, would you recommend getting the genki workbook, answer key, and/or cd? Sorry to ask so many questions. I'm really new to all this.