Cheap Hosting for Blog?

Hi, I need recommendation on hosting for my wordpress blog. A bit tight on startup fund. I looked at 1&1 and they are giving 1 year of hosting + Free Domain + Free WHOIS for $11.88 and GoDaddy is giving me FREE Domain + Economy Linux cPanel Hosting + Domain privacy for approx $26 USD via a coupon. Which one should I go for?

And do I need 1&1's or GoDaddy's wordpress hosting and management? Because I want to directly use and customize plugins directly on wordpress by myself. Just need the hosting.

You guys wanna recommend anything else? Also which hosting site offers adwords or bing coupons as free gift?

-iAiden