Originally Posted by jallen
point of getting performance socks (not performance the bike mailorder

) is that they are usually not made out of cotton. They wick sweat away from your feet, and allows you to go further and longer without blistering.
If one just rides around the neighborhood, and doesn't go on epics, I like the ankle socks from X-Mart, too myself

Fair enough. But Ive never personally got blisters from using my X-mart socks.