Music is crucial. Beyond no way can I overstress this fact. Let's say you're southbound on the interstate, cruising alone in the middle lane, listening to AM radio. Up alongside comes a tractor trailer of logs or concrete pipe, a tie-down strap breaks, and the load dumps on top of your little sheetmetal ride. Crushed under a world of concrete, you're sandwiched like so much meat salad between layers of steel and glass. In that last, fast flutter of your eyelids, you looking down that long tunnel toward the bright God Light and your dead grandma walking up to hug you--do you want to be hearing another radio commercial for a mega, clearance, closeout, blow-out liquidation car-stereo sale? . Chuck Palahniuk
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It's not just the car you lose when you get in an accident. It's everything you have. The car is everything to us, and it is our whole identity. When it comes to the one thing we love above all others, we go to extremes for it.

We cry tears of joy when we get the new model, and then we kill ourselves getting it just right. We give up sleep, junk food, sex. We do anything for our precious little baby.

We're willing to lose everything just to hold on to it a few more seconds.

Source: Rant

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