[Rob Instigator]

Considering the initial backlash that greeted Sonic Youth principals Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon when they announced plans to appear on the WB teen drama ‘Gilmore Girls’ with their daughter Coco Hayley Gordon Moore back in 2006, you’d think they’d become Al-Qaeda terrorists or something.
Many of the notoriously fickle SY followers on the band’s online gossip board laid into the couple, trashing what turned out to be a rather innocuous performance as evidence of them “selling out,” a rather outdated concept even back in the mid-’00s. At the center of the controversy was the show itself, which was both critically acclaimed and bitterly panned as some sort of cultural touchstone.
“I usually have a high tolerance for s—ty TV, but this show is the boiling point for me, with all its contrived ‘hip’ references, ‘witty’ speedy dialog and pseudo-sophisticated bourgeois vibe that makes my stomach turn,” wrote one particularly annoyed Youth fan.


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huh? own up!