Music snobs....

[casecandy]

The fucker who manages Backstreet Records in Fredericton, NB, is just the worst. (Eric, if you're reading this, I mean it so endearingly, I swear.) He runs this tiny little record store that's like... 10x10, I swear to God, and never gets any new sealed vinyl in, and always has some dreadful sound collage shit on in the store. Like fucking Geir Jenssen, Cho Oyu 8201m* for fuck's sake. That's gonna a) encourage people to mill around and b) encourage people to buy albums. Sheesh.

You'll ask him sincerely about a record and he likes to give you fuckboi responses. Sample, "How's this new Volcano Choir album?" "It's literally the best rock record ever recorded." Okay, erm, thanks. He hates on all my music around the clock. Once I mentioned Thrice and he rolled his eyes. Thankfully, this has benefited me on more than one occassion, as he puts out anything he doesn't think is worthwhile music in a pile of free CDs. This is how I got my copies of the first Weatherbox EP and two Dashboard albums, one of which was the relatively difficult to find, OOP and expensive Drowning EP. He literally goes to the Best Buy up the hill, buys CDs there, and resells them in his shop. All the CDs are, like, twenty bucks. There's literally not one CD album in there you couldn't order for half the price on the band's online shop.

This having been said, he's a really good guy, and I think about half my vinyls (let's all cringe at the fact that I actually prefer calling them "vinyls") came from his store. There's just something about shitty little holes in the wall full of $3 lesser-known Paul Simon LPs, manned by bearded misanthropes who'd as soon see you fall down the fifty stairs you had to climb on the way in as spending money in their establishment.

Yes, let's hear it for music snobs.

*This is actually a great album that I throw absolutely no shade at.

[spacelordmother]

Chaos Fucking AD

[D.o.S.]

He hates on all my music around the clock

Have you ever stopped to ponder that it might actually all suck?

Because. I mean.

[D.o.S.]

I REEEEEEEFUUUUUUSSSSSSEEEEE

[casecandy]

He hates on all my music around the clock

Have you ever stopped to ponder that it might actually all suck?

Because. I mean.

Never! My music is amazing. 100% of the music I love is solid gold. Forever.

Moving on.

[Chankgeez]

This?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xzE9dslFqg[/youtube]

or this?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbRpa6KAc4g[/youtube]

[dub]

I've never experienced any musical snobbery outside of the internet.

Shit, that means I'm probably the one inflicting it. aha.

[spacelordmother]

I REEEEEEEFUUUUUUSSSSSSEEEEE

WE WHO ARE NOT AS OTHERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRSSSSSSSS

[jrmy]

I REEEEEEEFUUUUUUSSSSSSEEEEE

WE WHO ARE NOT AS OTHERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRSSSSSSSS

WAR FOR TERRITORRYYYYY!!!!!

[ThurberMingus]

There was a brief period when I was on a break with my partner. I was chatting it up with some honey on Tinder and I asked what kind of music she was into. She had cool hair so I assumed she knew what was up. She said that she liked "indie music" and my response was something to the effect of: "Oh yeah? What kind? I've been getting really into post-chill sadwave lately" a genre title I invented.

I immediately deleted my Tinder account.

[Inconuucl]

That reminds me of that one dude in my old board game group that would only listen to Led Zeppelin and Dream Theater, anything besides those two bands was considered "Fucking basic ass garbage". Incidentally, that same dude is the only person I've ever forcibly kicked out of my house.

I'm an inclusionist snob, I listen to goddamn everything. W-wait, no. I take that back, I fucking hate a lot of Hispanic folkloric music. That and narcocorridos.

[casecandy]

Some people maintain that sadwave is a thing.

(I think that they just mean slowcore, or maybe darkwave.)

[casecandy]

I'm an inclusionist snob, I listen to goddamn everything.

+1, I really love the majority of the eras, genres, movements...

Today I was listening to Coppice Halifax, Django Reinhardt, Beirut, Dizzy Wright, Sufjan Stevens, N.W.A., Year of No Light, and Travis Scott.

I only snob on people when they don't like an artist that I do.

My least favourite musical conversation, invariably with a white millennial, goes like:

Me: So what do you listen to?

Them: (too-enthusiastically) EVERYTHING!

Me: (hopefully) Oh? Everything?

Them: Yeah! (pause) Well... except country.

Me: (let down a little) Oh, uh, okay.

Them: Oh, and rap.

Me: (let down a lot) Oh, uh...

(pause)

Them: Or techno.

(pause)

Me: (incredulous that they just used the word "techno") Oh.

Them: Or anything with screaming.

(long pause)

Me: So you listen to 2000s indie rock.

Them: Yeah, like I said, everything!

[Blackened Soul]

I generally dislike when someone criticizes what I am buying or listening to to the point it will drive me deeper into whatever they don't like

[casecandy]

I generally dislike when someone criticizes what I am buying or listening to to the point it will drive me deeper into whatever they don't like

Speaking from personal experience, I do this a lot, and it's dangerous... as you can convince yourself something is super great, just to be a contrarian

In 2003 I did this with the band Sugarcult

These were dark times