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In that earlier post on this thread, I talked about how annoying Velvet Underground fans were in the '80s and early '90s, wearing the band on their arrogant sleeves like some status symbol, in order to look intellectually and culturally superior to the jocks, metalheads, preppies, etc. Well, starting in the early '90s, around the time of Goo or Dirty, many of the slightly younger ('Gen-Y') crowd (at the high school level) started doing the same thing with Sonic Youth. Dan Clowes makes a note of this in his Ghost World graphic novel (collected from his Eightball comic), with Enid (Thora Birch in the 2002 film version, alongside Scarlett Johannson) making some snide comment about the snotty girls at school who think they're superior just because they've heard of Sonic Youth (or something like that). I think that was a very accurate observation on Mr. Clowes' part...
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