The Ultimate Reason to buy an MP3 Player

Forget about using your smartphone for playing MP3s, get a nice MP3 player with solid audio performance to drown out the Christmas songs that keep playing in malls this holiday season. Even the predominantly non-Christmas celebrating Shanghainese are bombarded with looped versions of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. As I struggled to finish buying my groceries at Tesco Minhang, I fervently wished for a better noise-cancelling headset like Dr. Dre Beats or one of those huge Sennheiser headphones. I knew it wouldn't be long before I would once again memorize Santa's Avengers team of reindeers. Now I know why high-end headphones cost so much.

What happens when Spidey forgets his Audio-Technica headset before going X'mas shopping . . .

Art by Mark Bagley from Amazing Spider-Man #351