"Each decade becomes a little more accepting of it," she said. The song has helped make thrift shopping "more acceptable," Sarno said. "There's a whole lot of people in the Berkshires that go to thrift shops because they're green, and want to recycle."Īccording to a blog on LA Weekly, some Goodwill stores across southern California and Seattle are injecting some of the song's more popular lyrics onto posters hanging in the storefronts as part of a new ad campaign.Įngels said there's currently no plan to include Berkshire Goodwill stores in the "Thrift Shop" ad campaign, but he would if there was enough demand.ĭespite the occasional innuendo or curse word in "Thrift Shop," January Sarno will sometimes play it in her own Great Barrington thrift shop, Boho Exchange on Main Street. "What we get donated to us is an incredibly high-end quality," he said. Thrifters that browse Berkshire Goodwill stores are the same as they were before "Thrift Shop" became a hit: Cost-savvy and environment-savvy shoppers. "In that respect, has obviously helped our business," Engels said. "Thrift Shop" spurred a group of Williams College students to host a party centered around it on campus last fall, where $1,000 of Goodwill items were sold. "I was at a chamber event and a kid did the whole song for me." "I can tell you people talk to me about it," Engels said. "We know the song, and we know any time, from a marketing standpoint, your name is mentioned in a positive way, it's good publicity," said Frank Engels, the CEO of the Goodwill Industries of the Berkshires, which has stores in Pittsfield, Lee, North Adams and Bennington, Vt.
17 on the Billboard charts.Īs a result of the independently produced runaway hit, interest and business at thrift shops across the country and in the Berkshires has increased - at least anecdotally. The catchy track has topped the music charts across the globe and been viewed on YouTube more than 340 million times. Released last August, "Thrift Shop" is a cheeky rap song by Seattle-based duo Macklemore and Ryan Lewis about "poppin' tags" - or buying everything from "your granddad's clothes" to "a broken keyboard" at thrift shops like Goodwill. "It makes me want to go to a thrift shop," she said. She said her decision to go thrift shopping might have had something to do with the hit song, "Thrift Shop" - "I love it," Weiss said. Meanwhile Weiss, 19, found a sparkling black dress for ballroom dancing. If you go to a department store, you're wearing something that a million other people are wearing." "There's a big variety, and it's well-organized," Dahlhaus said.
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