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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
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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Nothing wrong with wearing good quality jeans, if you can afford them. If the music you make is also great, even better. Just don't go on and on about 'revolutionary', 'radical', 'political' etc ideals when you are taking a simple garment to blah blah blah to the press because some hack needed something to write. That's not cool, is it? Nevermind the filthy commies not finding that cool. Thurston Moore, Henry Rollins, and Kim Gordon, for that matter, will never be taken seriously by actual revolutionaries. Enjoy their music, though, why not? Almost everyone loves music.