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This was a lovely show. I was a teenager when Smith was playing shows around the Northwest in the 90's and was lucky enough to catch him at the Sailors Union of the Pacific in Seattle when I was about 16. I'm now almost 30 and a new mom and Elliott Smith is one of the only musicians that has carried over from those years. I still listen to his early albums regularly. Thanks for this show--it was a (perhaps bittersweet) reminder of my youth.

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This was a lovely show. I was a teenager when Smith was playing shows around the Northwest in the 90's and was lucky enough to catch him at the Sailors Union of the Pacific in Seattle when I was about 16. I'm now almost 30 and a new mom and Elliott Smith is one of the only musicians that has carried over from those years. I still listen to his early albums regularly. Thanks for this show--it was a (perhaps bittersweet) reminder of my youth.

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I find myself reevaluating how much I care about the things money can buy: new clothes, books, electronics, etc. Do I really need all this stuff? This is partly because I'm trying to be more frugal. But a bigger part of it for me is the fact that more stuff will not make me happier or more unique or more human. I don't want to buy into the rampant consumerism anymore.

The scare tactics our politicians are using are repulsive. Remember President Bush telling us, post 9/11, that everything would get back to normal if we just went shopping? And what about that economic stimulus a few months back that was supposed to fix the economic downturn? When they tell us that this failure to pass the bailout will be catastrophic for "Main St" what they aren't owning up to is this: the government's deregulation created a system wherein the labor of those of us at the bottom cumulatively created enormous wealth for those on top of the socio-economic ladder, and now that "Wall St." is crashing down, those most hurt will be those toiling away at the bottom.

Money won't solve my problems, and it won't solve the country's.

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