# Sony Clié nu metal postcard
#palm #ad

This lovely bit of advertising ephemera just popped up in my Ebay saved searches: a [[Tower Records|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_Records]] postcard promoting [[Sony Clié|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLI%C3%89]]. I don't see a model specified, but I think it's the [[PEG-N760C|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_CLI%C3%89_PEG-N760C]] unless there's another in the N series with mp3 support.

![[Wall Street. A businessperson on their cellphone looks incredulous at three people composited into the scene who are done up in mallgoth style: white pancake foundation, heavy eye makeup, pleather bondage gear, cyberfalls, a mohawk, etc. A Sony Clié with mp3 attachment is superimposed in the corner over one of them.|../img/palm/clie-postcard/clie-postcard-front.jpg]]

Who was this for? At first I assumed it was for some intra-industry event, saying "look how our product stands out from all the other Palms with its mp3 support" with typically droll humor. But this was at Tower Records, so maybe they're saying "Hey kids! Do you like Slipknot? Then you're gonna love the new Sony Clie!" But the mallgoths/bandmembers/whatever are not an actual recognizable band, and they look pretty dorky, so it's more like they're saying "buy the Sony Clie — everyone will think you're a weirdo!" Is owning a Sony Clie supposed to be an act of rebellion?

I am massively overthinking this, but I actually owned (own!) a Sony Clie and was a dorky mallgoth, so I feel like it ought to be legible to me. I guess they're just saying "our Palm plays mp3s, also here's a picture of a music thing that's currently trendy, which you should think is funny." Well, I guess I do think it's funny, but probably not the way they intended.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/137148219995
https://www.ebay.com/itm/147230094466

All images: [[../img/palm/clie-postcard/]]