Buying USB-C earbuds for my Pixel 2 was incredibly annoying and expensive

When I upgraded from my Nexus 5X to a Pixel 2, I didn’t worry about living the headphone #donglelife. I figured I would just replace my current headphones with a cheap USB-C pair, because I usually buy my earbuds from airport kiosks for $20 or less. I had ruled out Bluetooth earbuds, because I loathe the idea of charging yet another gadget, and I tend to lose things. I thought finding earbuds for Google’s flagship phone would be easy. I thought wrong.Here were my basic requirements: