You hire Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton to help the music section clean up, and we reward you with a Payback Time T-shirt and two tickets to a Live Nation club show of your choice taking place in Vancouver within the next four weeks. Here’s this week’s winning whinge.

Dear Payback Time: Perhaps the eco-cool movement has finally made its way to the Straight’s music section, and that’s why you’re recycling jokes? This week’s section refers to ’90s redux when mentioning the Primus tour, saying, “In case you haven’t been listening to what they’re spinning at the Gap lately”, the ’90s are back. And then, just like an aging band looking for a set of second mortgages, the joke makes a comeback! A few pages later, the Straight recommends Aussie act Beautiful Girls and their resurgently ’90s white-guy reggae, which is cool again, “in case you haven’t been listening to what they’re spinning at Old Navy lately”. Okay, okay, we get the point: ’80s out, ’90s in. Bring on the flannel. Another thing you might want to bring back from the ’90s, though, is a more stringent editor than spell check.

> Lisa M.

Mike Usinger replies: Dearest Lisa—Man, I must have been totally drunk on kerosene while performing my editing duties last week. Your little missive convinced me to swallow my pride and carefully re-read the entire music section. And, boy, did that exercise set me straight.

After the Primus Fall Concerts Gap mention of the ’90s that you cite above, the Stone Temple Pilots’ entry contains the following: “In case you haven’t been listening to what they’re spinning at American Apparel lately, the ’90s are, like, totally hot right now.” As you noticed, a variation of this pops up later in the Beautiful Girls Straight Choice, only with American Apparel changed to Old Navy. But it doesn’t stop there. In Instant Playlist last week, this line somehow snuck into the Wilderness Years write-up: “And, in case you haven’t been listening to what they’re spinning at Le Chí¢teau lately, the ’90s are, like, totally hot right now.”

Jesus Christ pose on a crutch—it’s, like, totally obvious that I, and everyone else on the floor, have been spending a tad too much time lately spinning the sounds that made chicks in combat boots seem sexy, and not enough rolling up our sleeves and getting dirt under our fingernails. Quite frankly, the lack of attention to detail around here smells. In the spirit of doing things correctly, you hereby have our pledge that we’re going to pay ten times more attention to putting out a quality product this week. Because you know the old saying that goes “Every good boy deserves fudge”? Well, quite frankly, we’re not scared to admit that every good girl deserves the right to pick up the music section without looking at the editing and thinking, “A three-year-old could do that.” Even if—and especially when—the ’90s are, like, totally hot right now, we have to do a job that’s not not going to to make people that “that’s for the birds.”

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