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Originally Posted by Genteel Death 2
I seem to remember an article where Henry Rollins and Thurston Moore talk about the 'significance' of Levi's in hardcore punk. It may have been a video, but it's been a while. I thought it was the lamest thing.
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it's because, as you well know, american hardcore punk was always mostly a middle class phenomenon, so that fetishistic consumerism was at the core of their (unconscious) ideology. "you are what you buy" is all there is to hipsterdom
i honestly do not know how people came to believe that these bands are made up of great revolutionaries. when i send music links to my leftist foreign friends they spit on me for being an americanizing bastard. i tell them it's good music, but they will have none of it. at least they are consistent
anyway, on more of the "you are what you buy" praxis, see for example the following case:
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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
(cds! so long ago)
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Originally Posted by The Soup Nazi
HEY! YOU'RE THE DEVIL!
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WHY, THANK YOU