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Just what you want! Yazz-UH! Twelve examples of the latest "Rock and Roll" toe-tappers carefully selected with the aging consumer in mind. Encourage the tempting thesis that adolescence is not just another hormonal change but a fun lifestyle that you can perpetuate. Thrill to these kids' "rebellious streaks" and identify with their angry, disconsolate poetry. Listen to them howl, or, if you really get into it, pay to see them strut and preen in a large public venue. It's embarrassing. Watch the clownish remnants of an obsolete satire of slave culture become our nation's primary aesthetic export! Wow! Get two!

CD...... $17.95

That fake ad was from the Acme Novelty Library. I read it the other day and it really made me think. I've sort of already lost interest in watching bands and I don't listen to music nearly like I used to. This pushed me over the edge... fortunately, it's not a true characterisation of all or even most bands, but it certainly does describe a hell of a lot of 'em.

― Scaredy Cat, Tuesday, 28 January 2003 08:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Is there a new Acme Novelty Library? I'll have to gird myself.

And Rock (rather than Pop) hasn't been the US's primary aesthetic export (or even second behind FastLane) for a while.

Wait, is Chris Ware Canadian?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 12:31 (twenty-three years ago)

This reminds me of why I only bothered reading one issue of Acme Novelty Library.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 12:35 (twenty-three years ago)

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