it pisses me off how one person misinterpreted what i was saying and the whole board gets out their claws.
get off the internet, dudes. when i said i listened to pussy galore in 8th grade it didn't mean i was cooler than thou. it meant now it's a lot fucking harder to find shit that hurts my ears. stop your fucking bitching about music and just listen to it, for chrissakes.
i think the problem with this board is that there IS a lot of justification. we're all inbreeding, nadsat-speaking outcasts, and sometimes we forget that we're all here for the same goddamn purpose. DA MUSIC DUDES. DA MUSIC.
who the fuck cares if you found your music on soulseek or in some sale bin at a record store ten years ago? i don't care how you found your music, i'm just glad there's at least someone else out there who can stand the shit i listen to.
Though we'd like to think it changes as we get older, there's still a lot of judgemental crap going on when it comes to music. it's like, we're nerdy about music so we gotta up nerd the next person. I've come to the point where I assume a lot of people aren't going to like what I like, so I don't even talk about music to others all that much, unless it's a friend that I've met at shows or whatever.
Also, people do care how they found their music, because it takes them back to their youth, or that time when they figured out they don't have to be the sad weirdo that people are giving hell to in school. At least I felt that way, I remember flipping through the racks fondly because it was my only real friend at the time.
i know what you mean. it's frustrating, because when i was in high school i didn't have an outlet like these message boards (until last year when i found it) i didn't have anyone to talk about my music with. and for these people to judge these kids (me being one of them) is pretty absurd, and really discouraging. i think it's pretty cool that there are people my age who even KNOW about terminal boredom or victim of time, or whatever... let alone understand what we're all talking about/listening to. i mean, i don't even know how my love for throbbing gristle could ever look "cool", because no one where i live even knows who they are... and if they heard the music they'd probably throw up a little bit. it's really personal, and i understand why people are getting so up in arms about that... but then respect that the people you're all attacking take their music very personal too. again, to articulate it, we're all here for the same reason. you can bitch about the kids who AREN'T here, wanting to participate in discussion about this sonic shit.
--n.