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ATP Atomic Tiki Punk Tiki Socialite Costa Misery Joined: Jul 19, 2009 Posts: 7118	ATP Atomic Tiki Punk Posted posted on Tue, Jul 17, 2012 8:09 PM Hipsters! Time Magazine wrote this: "Hipsters are the friends who sneer when you cop to liking Coldplay. They're the people who wear t-shirts silk-screened with quotes from movies you've never heard of and the only ones in America who still think Pabst Blue Ribbon is a good beer. They sport cowboy hats and berets and think Kanye West stole their sunglasses. Everything about them is exactingly constructed to give off the vibe that they just don't care." Time, July 2009 Christian Lorentzen of Time Out New York calls them "The Assassins of Cool." I see them everywhere, But what are they? Their mode of dress has assimilated, cannibalized, regurgitated 1970s, Emo, 80s New wave, Gypsy & urban influences, while discarding everything that the styles stood for, They drive BMWs & Mercedes, They have Messy hair, Tight Jeans, Big glasses, way over priced silk screened T-Shirts & Hoodies They pay alot of money to look thrift store & they are walking ads for Urban Outfitters. They are in their 20s & 30s and stand for nothing, They have no Ideology or Philosophy, They like only the latest bands but not because of any musicality, but just the fact that the band is so new, they must be good. They think they are better then everyone else, They stand for nothing & they all look exactly the same, completely devoid of any Individualism, what so ever! is that not Anti-Punk!. The sum of these parts, iPods,iPhones & iPads, Energy drinks, Flavored Vodka's, Designer clothes meant to not look like designer clothes ad nauseum, what does it all add up too? Yup! just a bunch of Super Consumers. P.S. If you like "Coldplay" you may not be a Hipster, But you still suck! [ Edited by: Atomic Tiki Punk 2012-07-17 21:32 ]

Hipsters!

Time Magazine wrote this:
"Hipsters are the friends who sneer when you cop to liking Coldplay. They're the people who wear t-shirts silk-screened with quotes from movies you've never heard of and the only ones in America who still think Pabst Blue Ribbon is a good beer. They sport cowboy hats and berets and think Kanye West stole their sunglasses. Everything about them is exactingly constructed to give off the vibe that they just don't care."

Time, July 2009

Christian Lorentzen of Time Out New York calls them "The Assassins of Cool."

I see them everywhere, But what are they?

Their mode of dress has assimilated, cannibalized, regurgitated 1970s, Emo, 80s New wave, Gypsy & urban influences, while discarding everything that the styles stood for, They drive BMWs & Mercedes, They have Messy hair, Tight Jeans, Big glasses, way over priced silk screened T-Shirts & Hoodies
They pay alot of money to look thrift store & they are walking ads for Urban Outfitters.

They are in their 20s & 30s and stand for nothing, They have no Ideology or Philosophy, They like only the latest bands but not because of any musicality, but just the fact that the band is so new, they must be good.

They think they are better then everyone else, They stand for nothing & they all look exactly the same, completely devoid of any Individualism, what so ever! is that not Anti-Punk!.

The sum of these parts, iPods,iPhones & iPads, Energy drinks, Flavored Vodka's, Designer clothes meant to not look like designer clothes
ad nauseum, what does it all add up too?

Yup! just a bunch of Super Consumers.

P.S. If you like "Coldplay" you may not be a Hipster, But you still suck!

[ Edited by: Atomic Tiki Punk 2012-07-17 21:32 ]

Post #644435 by Atomic Tiki Punk on Tue, Jul 17, 2012 8:09 PM