So, I went to the mall today and took a look around Urban Outfitters. The things it sells are really cool, but there are just some things that irk me about it.
First off, the people who shop there shop there to look like they shop at a thrift store. Why not just shop at a thrift store? You can buy the same kinds of things for a fraction of the price. Which leads me to my next topic: people don't shop there to look like they shop at thrift stores; they shop there because they want to be associated with the title indie.
Many of the people that shop at that store are wannabe indie snobs. At least indie snobs actually know about indie things. It's like when Sarah Marshall calls out Aldous Snow in "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" about the mixed meanings of his tattoos. Aldous Snow has a modest amount of contradictory tattoos on his body, and during his fight with Sarah Sarah pointed this out. I understand Sarah when she yells, "And you know what? Let me tell you something about these tattoos, okay. That is Buddhist, that is Nordic, that is Hindu, that's just gibberish. They are completely conflicting ideologies, and that does not make you a citizen of the world, it makes you full of shit!" That is what the indie posers are... full of shit. Then again, aren't all the posers.
I'm not saying that I am the god of indie, but like with every other fad in the past people try to fit in to them. And, as for the jerk indie people that think they are better than others just because they are indie, screw them. Me liking indie music is just like my friend liking rap. It's what we like and there are no rules we have to live by simply because we like the music.
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