The Big Hurt: The year in not really giving a shit

 Regarding your comments about TV On The Radio & this article in general: Your stubborn stance to not even listen to TVOTR and make up your own mind soley because Pitchfork likes them makes you just as bad as the people who listen only to music branded with the Pfork "Best New Music" emblem.  This is a sad, lazy stance for any music fan but it is utterly pathetic for one who gets paid to write about music. Reading your comments about certain elements in this year's music that upset you it became 100% clear to me that you are just as guilty, if not more so, of all the music trends you lined up inside your unimaginative rock-critic-rifle-scope.  One of the biggest ironies of the anti-Pitchfork folks is the self perpetuating cycle they doubtlessly generate with their gripes.  By mentioning them again and again in pieces about music you will only increase their standing as today's tastemakers.  So, again, you are the problem you describe in your piece.
Sadder than this irony is the apparent fact that Pitchfork is more interesting, as a subject to write about, than the music itself.   Has music become so boring and predictable that the only thing interesting thing one might have to say about them is to reference what the top reviewers have already said about them (or in the case of Fleet Foxes - where the album is sold)?  It's as if the indie-music world is inching closely to the stock market.  I can just picture you hosting an indie-equivalent to Jim Cramer's Mad Money tv show in which you list hot bands, who has endorsed them, and whether you should jump on or off the band wagon. I would've loved if you tore these bands apart with some intelligent discussion of their lyrics, their melodies, or their artistic bent.  But I can only surmise that you are incable of such free thought.  How about this for an unfair deal?  I'll never read anything you write for the Phoenix again based soley on your impressively stupid stances presented in this article?  Deal?  Deal.
 

 Haha, check out how much I made this tit write.

Thorpe, the whole "I don't give a shit about anything!" routine is admirably consistent but ultimately hollow.  It's boring and you know it.  No matter how many bands, er, rather websites who talk about bands (lol), you trash it won't erase the memories of the bullies who pantsed you on the playground or whatever unresolved bologna it is that makes you write such angry, unimaginative crap. 

 Great counterpoint, Thorpe. I agree.

 I only wish I could piss so many people off in five hundred words or less.

 I only wish I could piss so many people off in a thousand words or less.

 Thorpe, I see you've called in your bros to hoist up your opinion here.  I can just imagine your high fives later when you all grab some brews.  Radical.  Let me know when you finally get an article published in Chunklet.