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CTL-W-0388 · Work · 2000s

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UNC Press blog, historian Jennifer Le Zotte, author of From Goodwill to Grunge (fetched in full): 'In the 2013 number-one Billboard song "Thrift Shop," Seattle duo Macklemore and Ryan Lewis boast about their fashionably unfashionable thrift... Macklemore goes "poppin' tags" at Goodwill with only twenty dollars in his pocket.'

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UNC Press blog, historian Jennifer Le Zotte, author of From Goodwill to Grunge (fetched in full): 'In the 2013 number-one Billboard song "Thrift Shop," Seattle duo Macklemore and Ryan Lewis boast about their fashionably unfashionable thrift... Macklemore goes "poppin' tags" at Goodwill with only twenty dollars in his pocket.'

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UNC Press blog, historian Jennifer Le Zotte, author of From Goodwill to Grunge (fetched in full): 'In the 2013 number-one Billboard song "Thrift Shop," Seattle duo Macklemore and Ryan Lewis boast about their fashionably unfashionable thrift... Macklemore goes "poppin' tags" at Goodwill with only twenty dollars in his pocket.'

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