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01/22/2004: "Reckless Consumption"
You have to be hipper than the clerks -- that's the rule at serious book and record stores. So I was a little surpirsed today when I was at Border's and wanted to buy something embarrassing. Nothing awful, really, just something I like and am a little ashamed to admit it. I never would have considered it if the music hadn't been playing on the in-store sound system; nice. good-time summery stuff from a popular artist's recently released greatest-hits package. The CD is in a nearby display of best-sellers, it's on sale, and I am sucker enough to be considering it. Can I actually take this pop pablum up to the register and buy it? I did steel myself and buy it, albeit under cover of a witheringly-cool Johnny Cash CD. So maybe maturity has won out over peer pressure. Maybe I'm too old to care any more. Maybe I'm so hip I'm bulletproof. Whatever. All I wanna do is have some fun.
