Milo Yiannopoulos, a columnist for Business Insider,
spent $1,200 on a plane ticket in order to fly to Germany from London and buy Mariah Carey's new album today.
He describes why he dropped an entire month's rent on something he could buy for $10 like this:
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Why am I travelling across Europe to purchase a CD? Because I don't steal music, and because record labels are a—holes. The album comes out today in Germany and Australia, but, for some reason, the U.S. and the U.K. both have to wait until next week. Which I don't want to.
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But Yiannopoulos eventually reveals why he really dropped a grand on a singer's 14th album, and it has nothing to do with a record label.
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There's a certain cachet to doing something so ridiculous. It puts you squarely in the premier league of fans. (Since you ask, Mariah devotees are called "lambs.") In this age of *******s and iTunes gift cards (which can be used to open foreign accounts, if you're really determined), it's getting harder and harder to demonstrate that you're a proper nut-job groupie. I'm hoping no one bested me and flew to Australia, by the way, because that would murder my standing in the forums.
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http://www.businessinsider.com/why-i...-album-2014-5#
A mess, but get that cred Lambily
(ft. Nas)
A bit much.
I've dropped 3000 on Miley's latest tour but that's an experience. I don't think I'd ever pay the money just to fly out and buy an album early, lmao.
