I think that what you have in the indie music fan stratum is a very tactile, explicit, cynical canon and a quite diminished desire to explore what's going on around it. So much shit is coming out each week and here's a whole community that has sorted out for you what's worth spending your precious time on. Discriminating, applying numerical values signifying non-negotiable merit. There isn't time to listen and make up your own mind. Just pick the best out of each thing. And everybody wants to feel like they're in. They wanna get the references and laugh at the memes.