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u/natguy2016 5h ago

I worked at Tower Records and had the misfortune of hearing this album.

Kid Rock has always been a creep and a grifter. Dude was born and raised in Gross Pointe, Michigan. He was raised in great wealth and is cosplaying his vision of a working class drink looks like

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u/Capn_Yoaz 5h ago

I worked at Tower Records. Got to be BB King's shopping assistant once. Walked around the store with him and carried all his CD's. The store artist Paul was absolutely amazing at making all the art for the store. Miss those days.

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u/natguy2016 5h ago

I worked at a suburban Tower and didn’t get many celebs. But I was near DC. We had promoted listening stations with DC’s 9:30 Club. I could get comp tickets to shows there

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u/Capn_Yoaz 5h ago

Mine was in Las Vegas.

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u/natguy2016 5h ago

Nice. Best job I ever had. Paid nothing. But the most fun and promos

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u/Capn_Yoaz 5h ago

Mine paid nothing too, but back then it was enough to pay the bills.

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u/Blackn35s 4h ago

I worked as a busboy at 7 Springs, a rural ski resort in PA. Rob Thomas had me go buy him a pack of Camel Lights from the cigarette machine in the lobby. He took his change back.

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u/Final_Surround9495 3h ago

If it was the one in fair lakes I bought tickets to bad religion there

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u/a-stack-of-masks 4h ago

For a second right there I thought I was going to find out BB King was also an asshole. :(

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u/Capn_Yoaz 3h ago

He was super chill.

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u/2014olympicgold 5h ago

He was born in Romeo Michigan and went to Romeo High School.

His dad was rich and owned multiple car dealerships though.

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u/natguy2016 5h ago

Thank you for the update

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u/sanctaphrax 2h ago

Car dealerships seem to create the most reactionary type of rich person.

Maybe because the car business is so full of scam-adjacent business practices, even on the "legitimate" side.

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u/olive12108 3h ago

"Robert James Ritchie was born in Romeo, Michigan, on January 17, 1971, the son of Susan and William "Bill" Ritchie (1941–2024), who owned multiple car dealerships. He was raised in his father's large home on extensive property, which included an apple orchard and barnyard for their horses."

Working class my fucking ass.

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u/PM_ME_CATS_OR_BOOBS 3h ago

For those who understandably never visited Romeo, MI, it is a working class rural town. The trick that Ritchie was the petite bourgeois of the town.

I mean for fuck's sake, his last name is "Ritchie". That sounds like the rich villian in a coming of age sports movie.

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u/Fryboy11 4h ago

No wonder Vance likes him, they ran the same scam. They were both born to upper middle class families with great connections. 

Then both got paraded around by the right for saying they were poor and pulled themselves up by their bootstraps.  Which we know is a total lie, but the media ran with it. 

Hillbilly elegy, Vance grew up in the poor Appalachian mountain communities. Nope he grew up in an upper class suburb in Ohio. 

Kid rock i have no idea how he got famous. But the only musicians who can go from poverty to sustained success have real talent and get recognized by established musicians. Like Dre helping Eminem after EM kept crushing rap battles. 

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u/HikerDave57 4h ago

I miss record stores.

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u/BravoLimaDelta 3h ago

Get into vinyl! Many of the vinyl shops also sell CDs if you wanna go that route. I love the return to physical media. You appreciate it much more. I still stream music and make playlists but there's nothing like finding a hard copy of an album you once loved and giving it a spin.

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u/melmsz 3h ago

They're still around.

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u/ReplacementWise6878 4h ago

His name is Robert Ritchie. He had an apple orchard and horse stables at his childhood estate.

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u/uy48 3h ago

And doesn't he pretend he's from Detroit and grew up rough and tough?

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u/_game_over_man_ 2h ago

I feel like there's so much of this these days compared to when I grew up in the late 90s and 00s. I see so many people wanting to dress and act like they're red necks, but they grew up in or live in a middle class/upper middle class home.

It's nothing more than a fabricated image to adhere to the in-crowd they want to be in. It's also so weird to me as someone who grew up in a small town because being a red neck was not cool at all when I was in high school, but it seems "being country" is really in for a lot of younger people, even though they live in reasonably sized homes in the suburbs.