Well there's a difference if you want to help out the community, or you're just out to make money. If you must, I'd buy gold VIA LR, you can actually store grams of gold on your account, at least I think.
Spending bitcoins is what helps the community, trading it for usd, not so much. I'm not in this to make money, but having so much invested into bitcoin at this stage would be pretty stupid. I might as well buy those bitcoins back if/when the situation is appropriate.