the independent music store can become a breeding ground for insecurity.
you are always slightly afraid that the cd you have chosen will not be cool enough to be bought at that store.
cool, of course, is determined by the person who is working behind the counter.
and the person behind the counter is most always on the highest tier of music snobbery.
they have to be. its their job. otherwise they would be working at the sam goody in the mall not caring when someone purchased christina aguilara.
no, these people are not only music enthusiasts, they are music purists.
and we,
those afraid of huge corporate prices,
those desiring something beyond clear channel's top forty,
we are forced to humbly approach these all knowing music gods in mortal flesh with our pathetic, tiny brains and display before them our selection of recorded harmonious melodies.
its a scary thing.
i have learned to buy my jazz from the place that does not house the jazz god, and my rock from somewhere outside of the range of the divine mullet mountains.
but yet, somewhere deep within me, is a hope that someday while i try to not make eye-contact by pretending to look at the buttons and patches on display
these mammoth music giants will stop sneering contempously at my new cds, look up to me and say, in the booming voices they most surely posess
"well done, thou hast chosen wisely. enter into our celestial clique"
and until then i will continue to hope and simultanously quake with fear when buying a new cd.
2:30 p.m. - 2003-11-07
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