I bought dollar store earbuds just to see how good they sounded

TL;DR: They're cheap, sure, but they're also painful and sound awfulI knew when I was standing in the checkout line that the Ear Buds I was buying weren’t going to be good - but I thought maybe, just maybe, they’d be a decent facsimile of some of the best earbuds I’d tested over the years. Not only did the Ear Buds sound like I was listening to music playing down the street through a tin can but, after wearing them for an afternoon, also gave me some pretty severe ear pain that felt like the stirrings of an ear infection. To describe it, the Ear Buds sound like you’re listening to music coming from someone’s house down the street. Bad-sounding audio should be a good reason to steer clear of these, but they actually have an even worse issue - they really messed up my ears.After listening to as much as I could stomach of Chance the Rapper’s 2016 album, Coloring Book, through the Ear Buds, I attempted to play a little Stardew Valley on the Nintendo Switch OLED.