FREAK Shots: Thrift, Sex, and Cheap Lattes

According to NPR, recession-themed marketing is a way to “rais[e] money from lower expectations” and “turn bad times into glad times” by selling thrift, good value — and, as Gawker claims, more sex and alcohol.
This photo, taken in a New York City subway station, then, is the perfect recession-ad sampler:

Photo: Ryan Hagen