Nation in Love with Girl from Record Store

One of my all-time favourite Onion stories, from June 2001

“[Metzler] works at the coolest record store in Athens, and she’s totally up on all the latest stuff,” said Ryan Griggs, 48, a television repairman from Salem, OR. “You have no idea how many people go in there every day and buy some obscure Go-Betweens B-sides collection or the latest Stephin Merritt side project just to try to impress her.”

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  1. This girl works at every record store in America….

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