Reflections upon a Used Cd Bin & Sarcasm Doy! (kinda long..deal with it!)
Pirate Bob ([email protected])
Mon, 17 Aug 1998 15:18:02 -0400
Now that my time has been dwindling down in my present domicile (ooh
alliteration!), I have been doing "things" for the last time. Today I
went to my favorite record store for the last time and traded in a bunch
of crappy cd's. Since all I buy (usually) are used cd's I generally
spend 90% of my time in the record store browsing through the used bins.
While going through looking for hidden treasures it got me to thinking
about people's tastes. There were ones that I expected, DJ promo copies
that technically weren't used but can't be sold as new, cd's that were
about 2 weeks old and had been bought and then immediately brought
back...but more interesting were the GREAT albums that had been traded
in. For instance, 3 copies of War, a copy of Live's first album, Aenima
by Tool, Rattle and Hum. I guess it just goes to show that some people
like certain things that others don't. Like I could never get into
Grateful Dead, but it doesn't make me have bad taste...I strongly
recommend that anyone who feels the need to "convert" non-U2 fans go
through the return bins or go through their own cd collection and think
about what cd's they've returned...monumentally philosophical like
baby!...
Secondly, why is it that sooooooooo(needs more o's)ooooooo many people
on this list take EVERYTHING literally. The transcript between the two
people was so obviously sarcasm. Is it just me? Am I operating on a
different realm of existence that I can see the blatant sarcasm in the
post? Perhaps I was just more able to see it because I went to
highschool with people EXACTLY (i like emphasizing things..) like the
two psuedo-fans in the post. One of those people I went to highschool
even told me that I couldn't be a TRUE (heh heh) U2 fan because I wasn't
religious. The only problem that I had with the post was I got bored,
the poster should've edited it from 2 posts down to one...Of course if
it wasn't sarcasm...(nope too scary to think about...)
--
"I smoked myself into a haze in the afternoon"
- Ash, A Life Less Ordinary
"Hey, it's a thingie! A fiendish thingie!"
- George Harrison, Help!
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