I refuse to renounce KT Tunstall simply because she is played in Starbucks. If anyone was suffering under delusions that I was music snob material, well, now you know.
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Megan McArdle is a columnist at Bloomberg View and a former senior editor at The Atlantic. Her new book is The Up Side of Down.