When I worked in the music department at a Christian bookstore in high school and college, I’d feel a bit like a methadone clinician. (Methadone, for those of you who are unaware, is a drug that is given to people in order to ultimately relieve them of their elicit drug habits.)
But instead of trying to get clean from drugs, many customers would be trying to walk away from secular music. They would come into the store with a specific favorite artist in mind, asking, “Do you know anyone who sounds like [fill in the blank]?”
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