We understood why people were clamoring to buy last Wednesday’s Washington Post, the one that declared that President-Elect Obama had made history. And sure, it made a certain amount of sense that D.C. residents started lining up at CVS that evening to snag a copy of the special $1.50 commemorative edition that came out later in the day, after the regular paper completely sold out. This was a huge moment in the history of this country, and even if the Washington Post ended up going with a pretty boring design for its cover, this is still the major paper of Washington, D.C., the center of American politics.

But $9.95 plus shipping for a newspaper? And would you really consider ordering and wearing a sweatshirt depicting the front page on it? Related: the Washington Post has to use CafePress? They can’t afford to sell their own coffee mugs?