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Originally Posted by Urban Hatemonger
I dislike things because I dislike them, not because they are popular.
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That's how it should be but unfortunately some people are the latter.
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Originally Posted by Urban Hatemonger
Music changes all the time and so does the stuff that gets hyped by the media. It just so happens at the moment I hate probably 99% of the albums hyped by the mainstream indie media. Is it my fault they're hyping music I have no particular affinity for?
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I never stated you have to like what's being hyped, simply listen to it before dismissing for the reason that it's hyped.
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Originally Posted by Urban Hatemonger
I don't see how it can be. A few years ago things might have been different, but if you think i'm going to endlessly listen to albums I find dull to justify having an opinion then think again. I've not heard the whole of the Grizzly Bear album, but I heard their last one and i've heard a few songs off this one and to be honest there was nothing in that stuff that suggested to me I was listening to anything mind blowingly amazing or original or even that great. I think that's enough to form an opinion on it without subjecting myself to the rest of it.
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I'd agree that is enough to form an opinion on however, if you don't listen to it at all, that opinion is pretty worthless.
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Originally Posted by Urban Hatemonger
I just like what I like. I don't care how many other people listen to something. It matters not to me if one other person likes an album or 1 million other people like an album.
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Good, I never said it should be any other way.
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Originally Posted by Urban Hatemonger
Life is far too short to waste time listening to something over & over again to please someone elses opinion of something.
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Why would listening to something force you to form the opinion as anyone but yourself?