Pop songs controlling for inflation
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Using BLS statistics, I update pop lyrics to control for inflation... so that you don't have to.
If I had $2.6 million, I'd buy you a house.
-- Barenaked Ladies, If I Had $1,000,000, fall 1988
-- Barenaked Ladies, If I Had $1,000,000, fall 1988
February 17, 2025 at 4:42 PM
If I had $2.6 million, I'd buy you a house.
-- Barenaked Ladies, If I Had $1,000,000, fall 1988
-- Barenaked Ladies, If I Had $1,000,000, fall 1988
"$121.88 and a six pack to my name/Spent the rest on beer, so who's to blame?
-- Black Flag, Six Pack, June 1981
-- Black Flag, Six Pack, June 1981
January 6, 2025 at 6:49 PM
"$121.88 and a six pack to my name/Spent the rest on beer, so who's to blame?
-- Black Flag, Six Pack, June 1981
-- Black Flag, Six Pack, June 1981
$2.91, born Curtis James Jackson III, November 1975.
December 22, 2024 at 9:59 PM
$2.91, born Curtis James Jackson III, November 1975.
Trailers for sale or rent
Rooms to let, $5.06
-- Roger Miller, King of the Road, November 1964
Rooms to let, $5.06
-- Roger Miller, King of the Road, November 1964
December 14, 2024 at 5:27 PM
Trailers for sale or rent
Rooms to let, $5.06
-- Roger Miller, King of the Road, November 1964
Rooms to let, $5.06
-- Roger Miller, King of the Road, November 1964