If you've ever wondered why metalheads fight so bitterly over bands...
Status-raising products are popular because they're easy. There's no initiation or lengthy learning process. Instead, you find a place that has the CD, and they're never more than two steps away from the neighborhood record store, and buy it. Some erect barriers like demanding cash only, using obscure formats like CD and tape, or even screaming fascist rhetoric at you, but still: the stuff's for sale and they need to sell it.
