Fuk it thosebands all suck anyway and so let the fat fatass Walmart fattypants assholes eat that sonic shit. Thats not real music anyway, not real underground shit. That stuff woulda gone mainstream whether some richety rich company put it out like that in a Happy Meal or not

Indie is as gay a label as emo

yea I said gay

not gae, gae is too indie

so I guess I should have said gae

its kool I have gay friends

but no gae ones

no indie or emo friends either thank Jehovah

rockabily suks too

PS indie is not subversive

not revolutionary

not radical

it just means you get no paycheck

Hey like is there an "indie chord"? An "indie mode"? An "indie scale"?

NO!!!

So, someone at Pitchfork either earnestly believes that the term "independent" truly distinguishes fairly economically successful pop rock on smaller labels from more economically successful pop rock on huge corporate labels and really believes Pitchfork is keepin' it real, or someone at Pitchfork is fully aware that "independent" is a marketing buzzword that makes a consumer feel distinguished and is frantically writing circles around the fact that Pitchfork themselves capitalize on this.

Either way, it's a painful read.

super cool hipster wrote:...or don't care about the Arcade Fire (shock!)? Who or what is going to be the gatekeeper for them?

If there is a hell, and it is similar to Dante's, then I would imagine I'd be thrown into a pit guarded by Pitchfork writers, hipsters wearing feminine jeans and "CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH!" t-shirts, and a Conor Oberst minotaur, who is too self absorbed to even care what is going on.

I guess I'll have to live this life to the fullest, because it seems I'm going to have a lot of musical sins to atone for in (a "musically cultured", playing only the finest selections from the likes of Arcade Fire, the Decemberists, the Shins, and Cat Power) hell.

Yeah...I don't think this is good...or necessarily bad..."ugly" is the perfect description.

Minotaur029 wrote:Where I grew up (Mt. Prospect), it was hard for me to acquire music that wasn't strictly corporate in nature

Mount Prospect is a suburb of Chicago that is situated exactally 22 miles away from downtown Chicago.

Yeah I can see where driving to reckless once and awhile would just be a huge drag, it being 20 miles away and all.

Minotaur029 wrote:Yeah...I don't think this is good...or necessarily bad..."ugly" is the perfect description.

I would probably just resign myself to "business as usual," but that doesn't make "ugly" inaccurate...

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No more fucking threads that begin with a long quote from Pitchfork
No more fucking threads that begin with a long quote from Pitchfork
No more fucking threads that begin with a long quote from Pitchfork
No more fucking threads that begin with a long quote from Pitchfork
No more fucking threads that begin with a long quote from Pitchfork

Heliotropic wrote:

super cool hipster wrote:...or don't care about the Arcade Fire (shock!)? Who or what is going to be the gatekeeper for them?

If there is a hell, and it is similar to Dante's, then I would imagine I'd be thrown into a pit guarded by Pitchfork writers, hipsters wearing feminine jeans and "CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH!" t-shirts, and a Conor Oberst minotaur, who is too self absorbed to even care what is going on.

I guess I'll have to live this life to the fullest, because it seems I'm going to have a lot of musical sins to atone for in (a "musically cultured", playing only the finest selections from the likes of Arcade Fire, the Decemberists, the Shins, and Cat Power) hell.

My Hell.

Steve V. wrote:My Hell.

Yes, I can totally see why paying $25 to see sonic youth and de la soul and grizzly bear and fifteen other bands would be so horrible, when you could spend twice as much to see the stooges at the shitty congress theatre.

or last year, when you could see Os Mutantes, Yo La Tengo, Mission of Burma, Silver Jews, and ten other bands out in the warm summer sun for half the price of a stooges ticket in the dank, shitty and horrible sounding congress theatre. those assholes.

Or the year before, where you could see Deerhoof, Wrens, Dungen, LEs Savy Fav and ten other band for half the price of a Stooges ticket in the boomy, crappy Congress Theatre.


this is me, snoring.