You find out about these weird and wonderful musics which you intellectually embrace through the media though. Your opinions are immediately tainted by the medium of delivery which presents said music to you.
The worst form of controlling propagandist media these days is the type which appeals to people like yourself who fool themselves into thinking they are superior because they do not consume that which the proles do. You are probably more controlled and influenced by the media than any of the Smash Hits kids of the 90s were.
Seriously, what on earth are you talking about? Wierd and wonderful musics like pop, dubstep, jungle, minimal, grime, dub, postpunk, classical, post-rock, jazz, blah blah blah...
So are you and John Eden saying you
don't use intelligence or discernment in your musical appreciation? How does that work?
And which "controlling propagandist media" appeals to "people like myself"? I've already stated that I don't read The Wire (recently featuring Wiley, Throbbing Gristle, Skulldisco - maybe I should start reading it)- unless you're talking about Dissensus, Woebot, K-punk, Blackdown's blog, etc?
The sort of "elitist", non-tesco-cd-buying types I'm talking about are the types who look beyond the mainstream media you're always complaining about to find out about wierd and wonderful things like... grime, for example. People who think outside what the mainstream tries to spoonfeed them with so they don't have to think about what they're consuming.
Where exactly did I say I was superior to "the proles" - I am a prole FFS! - I said that using intelligence to think beyond cliche and mainstream blandness is, maybe, just maybe, a good thing (shoot me).
I'm obviously not getting something here - I thought the whole point of Dissensus was for people like this (not that we/they're a homogenous group or anything, otherwise there'd be no dissent)?
And the only example of my oh-so-intellectual PC high-falutin aristocratic taste I gave on this thread was Rihanna's Umbrella, FFS!