What does Thrift Shop mean?

Macklemore: Thrift Shop Meaning

Album cover for Thrift Shop album cover

Song Released: 2012


Thrift Shop Lyrics

Hey, Macklemore! Can we go thrift shopping?

What, what, what, what... [x7]

Bada, badada, badada, bada... [x9]

[Hook:]
I'm gonna pop some tags
Only got twenty dollars in my pocket
I - I - I'm hunting, looking for a come-up
This is...

  1. 1TOP RATED

    #1 top rated interpretation:
    anonymous
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    Feb 8th 2013 !⃝

    its about how you can look good wearing what you want, you don't need a bunch of money and you dont have to wear gucci or prada or the pinkys up brands too look good, he can rock a $20 outfit while other rappers wear 50000000 dollar clothes

  2. 2TOP RATED

    #2 top rated interpretation:
    anonymous
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    Feb 9th 2013 !⃝

    This song is about going into a thrift shop and buying unwanted clothes, blankets, broken keyboards, sports equipment, etc, from a thrift shop.

    It can be about "one man's trash is another man's pleasure", or just that you don't need to wear a flashy outfit when you can buy a cheap one for 20 dollars at a thrift shop.

  3. TheReal_fuckermeister
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    Apr 26th 2021 !⃝

    Da pimp only got 20 dolla an hes gotta find somtin guch to rock so hes goin to da thrift shop to get sum drugs an cheap drip; he wearing ur granpas shit dat smells like piss an still looks like an og

  4. anonymous
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    Aug 6th 2016 !⃝

    He's poor and he shops at thrift shops okay.

    This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
  5. anonymous
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    Jun 15th 2013 !⃝

    It Means That He Is Buying His Clothes For $20 Or Less, When Other Rappers, Like Eminem, Bought Suits For Like $1,000. Then He Gets It Almost New For $20. Yay!!

  6. anonymous
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    Feb 22nd 2013 !⃝

    Hookers don't care where you get your clothes as long as you got more $$$ for them. It's all good.

  7. anonymous
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    Feb 8th 2013 !⃝

    it means to go into a thrift shop and buy stuff sicerly lord disick


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