Photo via Kanye University
Sometimes it is hard for me to evaluate what I truly value, and how much I value it. Do I value ‘friends’/'family’? Do I value ‘life experiences’ like ’studying abroad’? Do I value having new products in my possession? Do I value ’shit like Apple products’/'cell phones’/'the right to say that I was one of the first people to see an adventure action movie that is part of a trilogy’?
I saw these bros sitting outside of an urban boutique waiting to purchase the Kanye West sneakers, which I have previously reviewed. I wonder ‘what is so important’ about a shoe? Is there some sort of ‘technology’ that will make their lives’ better, or do they just want the right to the experience/right to purchase the shoe for $1000, or the right to sell the shoe on eBay to the ‘highest bidder’?
Wonder if I could ‘bond’ with the people who wait in line for new products, since we basically value the same stuff. Feels weird when ‘everything feels like a toy’, but there are still these adults who ‘really want to buy a kewl new toy that will make people think they are kewler.’
Always kinda weird when there is a higher demand than supply, and when people ‘wait overnight’ for the right to buy something. Kinda like a Nintendo Wii / Jonas Brothers tickets. Sort of reminds me of ’spoiled kids’ from my childhood, whose parents were ‘kinda bad and lazy’, just sort of letting their son/daughter ‘run away with the concept of COOL.’ Still angry that my parents weren’t like that.
Felt sad when I had to wait in line at an AT&T store for the new iPhone. Wish I lived in NYC/ a city with an Apple store so I didn’t feel like ’such a loser’ and I could actually bond with ‘kewl people’ who were part of the same ‘product tribe’ as me.
So what do yall value? Have yall ever ’sacrificed’ ur time 2 ‘wait for the right’ to ‘buy something fuckin awesome’? How does it feel when u have the product in ur hand, then spend several hundred dollars 2 purchase it? How does it feel the first time u use it?
Trying 2 be happy, and establish a hierarchy of wants and needs. Not sure if it means that a ‘lifestyle brand‘ has too much control over my life if I am willing to wait outdoors for more than 3 hours for it.
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19 Comments
FIRST!
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//////////Reply by HOMOSAPIEN_FUCK
//////////Posted April 3rd, 2009 at 10:46 pm
@……, SSECOND! 4 LIFE
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//////////Reply by EL FGGT
//////////Posted April 4th, 2009 at 11:16 am
@HOMOSAPIEN_FUCK,
third y’all
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last
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first is the worst!
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carles,
this line is for a different shoe entirely. it’s the air yeezy by nike obv
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//////////Reply by dbdbabdvd
//////////Posted April 3rd, 2009 at 1:59 pm
@brian, yeah those mexicalts don’t give a damn about kanyo
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is nintendo like apple 4 tweens?
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beyond the product, it seems that the connection to community is big. by committing to something that deeply (waiting in line to be first), it makes the person a leader to everyone else ‘below’ them in the commitment pyramid.
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These lines are the perfect place to meet guys via my love life is in the dumps yall.
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I hope all those waiting at at&t catch the skin cancer.
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jus thinkin how alt bros and entry level chix wait in line 2 get cd covvers signed.
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//////////Reply by yellowPaiges
//////////Posted April 3rd, 2009 at 4:01 pm
@wolfman, I prefer to get a tit signed
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irl first
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Look up the lines for Topshop!
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//////////Reply by confused british fag
//////////Posted April 3rd, 2009 at 6:03 pm
@t,i dont understand why people in nyc, who have a fuckton of shops and designers all around them, would get excited about a fucking topshop opening in nyc
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//////////Reply by EL FGGT
//////////Posted April 4th, 2009 at 11:17 am
@confused british fag,
exactly bro
put that shit in rural iowa && watch em RIOTTT
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i slept outside for nsync tickets once.
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I once waited in a comments queue to buy some kewl.
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//////////Reply by HOMOSAPIEN_FUCK
//////////Posted April 3rd, 2009 at 10:48 pm
@Crackerhead, I like where you are going with that comment, just work on the composition a little more, you almost got it
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Nah, they’re just a group of amiable hobos, sitting around their imaginary fire-in-a-trashcan.
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here in san francisco there are guys who wait for ltd edition shoes at true on haight st. i guess they haven’t read thorstein veblen
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//////////Reply by CandyKane
//////////Posted April 5th, 2009 at 9:20 am
@larrybob, t.veblen, very interesting.
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//////////Reply by sledcake
//////////Posted April 5th, 2009 at 9:24 am
@CandyKane, SF’s luv their techno, plastics pollution galore whilst they belittle folks drinking from plastic bottles..greenie hypocs
Lets get a greenie hippo-hypoc image/graphic someone..
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Herd instinct,masochistic desires.
Anyway this morning for breakfast I made myself a vegan bakin’, lettuce and tomato sandwich w/
my own vegan mayo on multi seed toast. +2 coffees. I really don’t bother anyone.
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LAME over here in england people queue outside HMV to get a Reading ticket, even though it’s probably less hassle buying online/phone
Idiot kids! We told a bunch of them that they’d already sold out, and that Wham! were headlining…
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Only filipinos who try to act black (via carefully inserting “nigga” into their vocabulary) and blipsters wait in line for sneakers!!
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What about people who wait in line just to wait in line? http://tinyurl.com/ctzpxj
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