[unalone]

Like, I like the Beatles. Great stuff. But I'll ask people, "Did you ever play any of their albums straight through? What songs have you heard?" If I just start saying that Revolver's first two tracks might be the best two in a row on any Beatles album, but that Sgt. Pepper's plays much better all the way through, it'd lose people, and most people are too shy to speak up. So they'd feel left out, and then maybe they'd kind of project that outwards and dislike me.

Funny you mention the Beatles. This argument inspired me to start writing a post about hipsterism, and I open with the argument that the Beatles were the most hipster band of all time. I mean, naming an album after an old-timey 20s pastiche, singing songs about carnivals and India, and did you see what they were wearing? Totally inauthentic hipster garb, that. ;-)

[gabrielleydon]

Holy shit! I believe this here is a genuine hipster argument on Hacker News! Face it none of you are cool enough to even be a hipster.

[masherrill]

I'm too fat to be a hipster