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...coffee shops--the hipsters too have their imitators. "There's definitely the hipsters, and then there's the gypsters," jokes Blake Miller, 33, the lead singer of Moving Units, a punk-inspired Silver Lake band. "There's people who figured out they just need to go to a thrift store and buy a tattered blazer and cut one side of their hair shorter than the other. And that's unfortunate because that usually is the first sign of a scene getting ready to crumble." It can't bode well when, for $100 a month, a store can rent an iPod...
...punk princess AVRIL LAVIGNE, charity began in the T-shirt bin at a thrift store, where she found a sporty green-and-gold number that she wore in the video for her song Sk8ter Boi. Turns out the T shirt came from a Wilkesboro, N.C., elementary school, which has since been inundated with calls from fans looking to buy one. The result? A windfall for the school, which was struggling to find cash to pay for new computers. Maybe it could pay Lavigne back by teaching her how to spell skater...
...While Hong Kong's economic woes have given a boost to the city's thrift culture, Low B Club's vintage chic may well have a tough tussle ahead?discerning shoppers may not take kindly to being seen at a place whose name means "Low IQ" in Cantonese?even if it comes from an inside joke between a pair of pop princesses...
...handwritten inscriptions in books. Reading the inscriptions is like knowing you own a repossessed car; you are profiting from someone’s failure. What sort of ingrates were George and Everett to consign their birthday and Christmas presents from the Glenns and Grace, respectively, to the thrift store where I bought them? Whoever the Glenns and Grace were, they spent some time writing their names and the occasion on the flyleaves of Lone Eagle of the Border and Carl Hall of Tait. And yet their hopes of being remembered by George and Everett were as futile as those...
...complication that you approve of. The term is invoked in favor of lower tax rates for certain (usually richer) people, for certain types of income (such as capital gains) and in general. It is undeniable that taxes discourage the activity being taxed, and that tax cuts encourage work and thrift and (if they're more narrowly focused) drinking more water on alternate Tuesdays in states beginning with W, and other fine things. But it is also undeniable that if you cut taxes on one activity or group of people, you must raise them on others to bring in the same...