Seeing Your Band’s CD at a Thrift Store

3/10

Seeing your band’s cd in a thrift store might be cool if you are a local band that is fairly unknown because then you’d be stoked that someone bought your cd in the first place, but if you’ve had notable success it would bum you out. Or at least it would bum me out. I mean I have seen my band’s cd used at record stores around here and that’s cool, but I wonder if the dudes from Alien Ant Farm get bummed when they see their album without fail every time they go to the thrift store. I mean not only are they seeing their cd there, but being at the thrift store in general must be a humbling experience for them. He might even return home feeling pretty sad and say to his wife “Honey, I saw ‘ANThology’ again at the thrift store…this time next to a smurf cup and evangelical cassette tapes.” After all, they had a fairly popular single that they still gather royalties from, along with MTV appearances, but now that the fame is over they are probably scrounging for used Levis with the rest of the working class joes. Personally, I love thrift stores, but I bet that guy from Alien Ant Farm thinks they are gay. I mean, realistically, the guy from Alien Ant Farm is probably still doing alright financially. My point is seeing your cd in a thrift store more often than not means it’s pretty much over. I mean when people are donating your cd that means that even the soccer mom that likes every band MTV shits out doesn’t want your cd anymore. I remember seeing a Backstreet Boys t-shirt at Savers a billion years ago and I stopped and smiled because I knew it was finally over for them. Of course this only really applies to an Alien Ant Farm type band, which this review is targeted to. I mean if you see a Beatles album it’s not really suprising or negative. They were obviously just so popular that their albums made it everywhere, rather than an Alien Ant Farm cd, tossed aside like a used condom.

As an extra bonus to this review I give looking through photo albums at thrift stores an 8/10. It would be higher, but these days they are pretty good at cleaning those out before they get to the shelves. I have found some interesting things in those. Also listening to people’s answering machine tapes is pretty fun too.

-MP