ok, so my inner snob comes out
Jan. 30th, 2006 12:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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kaygigi this, but am i snob for thinking there is something inherently wrong with being able to buy an ac/dc back in black t-shirt - with the "artistic"-aging process so that some of the letters showing signs of "peeling" at target?
i mean, yes, i'm fully aware such shirts have long been availalbe at hot topic and the ilk, and that's a separate discussion all-together, sort of.
target is... well, target. the bastion of all that is the wholesome mid-west with the hipness that is the rest of the country. i suppose middle america, is where manya'n original ac/dc fan is now working in the business world as The (wo)Man. in theory then, this would entitle target to sell such items to that audience even more so than said hot topic who is selling the shirts to kids who weren't even born when back in black first came out. hell, i was too young to appreciate it when it first came out.
but still.
maybe it's just my im-bedded target hatin' coming out.
i don't know. but, still, i'm just saying. being able to buy a michael graves's teapot and an ac/dc t-shirt in the same venture just violates my sense of morality. which, is yes, quite skewy. which i suppose, then, should just be the moral of this post.
kaygigi this, but am i snob for thinking there is something inherently wrong with being able to buy an ac/dc back in black t-shirt - with the "artistic"-aging process so that some of the letters showing signs of "peeling" at target?i mean, yes, i'm fully aware such shirts have long been availalbe at hot topic and the ilk, and that's a separate discussion all-together, sort of.
target is... well, target. the bastion of all that is the wholesome mid-west with the hipness that is the rest of the country. i suppose middle america, is where manya'n original ac/dc fan is now working in the business world as The (wo)Man. in theory then, this would entitle target to sell such items to that audience even more so than said hot topic who is selling the shirts to kids who weren't even born when back in black first came out. hell, i was too young to appreciate it when it first came out.
but still.
maybe it's just my im-bedded target hatin' coming out.
i don't know. but, still, i'm just saying. being able to buy a michael graves's teapot and an ac/dc t-shirt in the same venture just violates my sense of morality. which, is yes, quite skewy. which i suppose, then, should just be the moral of this post.
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Date: 2006-01-30 01:01 pm (UTC)What I find particularly ironic, and it didn't come to me until reading this post, is that the prices at Target for the new-vintage-rock-shirts are the same as say at Beacon's Closet for the actually-vintage-rock-shirts.
BTW, the way too expensive dishrack fits most of our dishes, a fabulous discovery, and consider that we had approximately 8 full place settings sitting in our sink waiting to be washed, the fact that the dishrack held almost all (except for some glasses, mostly due to the pots and pans that were also awaiting washing and had somewhat of a priority, and some bowls) was amazing.
Haven't set up the mouse yet. And never got around to oiling my boots. But they have been purchased! So thank you.
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Date: 2006-01-30 07:23 pm (UTC)how could i ever pass up an $8 cd player?
glad you got all your shopping done. the art-thing show was... weird, but good.
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Date: 2006-01-31 02:06 am (UTC)Beacon's and Andee's Cheapees are the two worst examples of vintage-gone-overpriced. Thats why I shop at the Astoria Salve-A, despite the politics of the Salvation Army... I know for a fact that most of the employees at that location steal from the till, and that fact makes me feel BETTER about shopping there...
Anywho, the world is shit, and I'm a cynical grad student, so I have two choices: be depressed, or blissfully unaware. Despite my tendancies towards the first, I'm trying for the second...