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CDs are the new gum (rant)Submitted by ispitinyourlatte on Wed, 05/25/2005 - 3:17pm.
I work at a starbucks smack dab in the middle of our american suburban dystopia. Starbucks decision to sell CDs is working brilliantly here. You can already get someone to make a $5 purchase on gum while they wait impatiently for you to ring up their half-caff, 1%, 2 splenda, 1/2 the sugar free vanilla caramel macchiato, so why not stretch it to a $16 cd purchase. Yuppies apparently don't care what they listen to as long as it's right in front of them to buy (how else would dave matthews get fans?). It's an option they've been waiting for for years. It was confusing wandering around chain electronic superstores wondering which crappy sound fits them best. Now starbucks can just tell them what they like and the yuppies will be happy to oblige and I'll get to listen to inane chatter about how good the Ray Charles disc is even though they haven't actually listened to it. They just heard it was good from someone or somewhere and that's good enough for them. You see, yuppies don't actually formulate opinions of their own on this kind of stuff and need to be given topics for conversation. I dunno, maybe it's good that chain electronic stores are taking a hit because starbucks certainly isn't taking the place of any actual record stores. I'm just pissed because I have to hear people talk about shitty adult contemporary music and listen in horror as the occassional good artist like nick drake gets co-opted. Now whenever I start to dig an accessible song I'm afraid I might hear it played for the yuppies at starbucks. I never really was a huge Beck fan but every time I see a 30-40 something pick up his disc and look at it in bewilderment I want to swat it out of his/her hand and reproach them with "NO! That is not for you!." Sorry I'm using this activist website for my own personal bitchfest but I didn't know where else to take it. Bookmark/Search this post with: |
