This Slate Podcast analyzing the Music sold and played at Starbucks is pretty fun. I notice that I am musically illiterate and that I have problems linking race to music. I guess I feel like their implying the lack of hiphop is a racial issue. Maybe I’m over interpreting.
But this all seems like more evidence that what retailers are really selling. If you want to buy music you can go online and if you want coffee you can buy at your local grocery store and brew it at home. But you go to Starbucks to buy community, attitude, sophistication–image.
Which probably has a lot to do with why I’m listening listening to this podcast.
Hmm… perhaps I should blog about moleskines….
By the way. Starbucks is a great chain (though evidence that I wasn’t a true Seattlite was found in the fact that I didn’t spurn Seattle’s Best Coffee shops). But Panera Bread Company (also St. Louis Bread Company) is much better. Universal free wifi and free refills. You gotta try them.
I’m sure they’ll be selling pretentious music soon as well.
The sandwiches at Panera are quite good too.
A bread bowl of French onion soup while reading the blogs… nice.
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And they have the best broccoli cheddar soup! Quite yummy.
What’s wrong with moleskines?
All the bloggers here back east love Panera. I always am running into other bloggers there IRL.
Panera has lousy coffee though.