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My records have always been cooler than me

I've been trying to fill up one of the itunes gift cards I received for Christmas. I tend to search for obscure pop music from my younger days when I get one of those things, and it's a process. I usually head right to the '70s or '80s and start scanning old charts. Then, the other day, I thought "why don't I try something in the '90s? How about 1993? I still liked pop music in '93, maybe there's something obscure there." So I pulled up a chart from that time and started scrolling. And then I stopped scrolling, because it was one song after another that I never liked. I think my separation with pop music began when artists started purposely misspelling song titles and their own band name. I couldn't relate anymore. Today, I don't even bother keeping up with popular songs, not even more adult-friendly issues. And it's been a recent development. Instead, I've hauled a bunch of old records out of the attic and started playi...