Black Friday c/d?

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I like the transparent ugliness of it, how it resists any kind of romanticizing, unlike something like Halloween or bullfighting. (or more appropriately, Thanksgiving)
I would like to believe that this transparency will make it self-regulating over time.

Black Friday is like catnip for working people who crave the "good things" of a consumer society but who make less than $15/hr. This is a very large segment of the population. BF is now another big holiday, iow.

how it resists any kind of romanticizing

ha - I think the lesson of the 21st century is "given enough battering, people will romanticize even the most reprehensible garbage in the world"

I basically hate everything about this whole idea.

The "first 200 customers throught the door" promotions make for a combination of the Lottery and MMA brawling == premier 21st century entertainment value.

Some of my co-workers are mad crazy for this shizznit. You could not make me get up that early to save money. World is a better place that early in the morning without me in it. And fuck being in a crowded store. Online thing is cool, would do that but I always forget to check it out...and I don't have the patience to go digging for bargains.

I went to K-Mart with my mother one year and didn't last five minutes before I begged to go home. What's so different about Black Friday than any other holiday sale? They all have gimmicky catches such as "Buy 5 game titles on Black Friday to get 50% an X-Box 360 with a free year subscription to Netflix Streaming!". People climb over each other for this crap, it's unbelievable.

This is one of those things that makes me ashamed to be American.

Maybe u were never really proud to be American if something like this makes u ashamed so easily. #reallymakesyouthink

i'm like kinda in the market for some nice audio equipment that will increase my aural pleasure listening to music. i'm open to anything really as long as it's reasonably priced. does anyone know about any audio/hifi equipment that might be really cheap come black friday - bookcase speakers? preamp? bluetooth something something that will make spotify on my iphone or my mp3/flacs on my computer sound good? plz help me find good deals!?!

i don't really do the brick-and-mortar black friday thing, but i just went in on an indie record store's 15% off online sale. i bought the reissue of this album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ns2nvj-VJqQ

I'd happily pay full price for what i want, rather than spend my time with people like this...
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=15a_1385698992

is anyone getting anything worth mentioning?

Getting trampled?