Standing in the "punk" section at HMV can enrage you...

[DroppinScience]

Honestly, if I'm at the mega-music store at the mall like an HMV, I really can't be browsing in their punk section for too long or else I will just get really really angry.

Since the real punk bands sit alongside the fake punk bands, it's inevitable you'll find the teens gawking over the fake stuff.

So one day, I was checking out this section, looking at Husker Du albums and the like when all of a sudden two 15 yr old girls start looking at the Hawthorne Heights albums and are all gawking over them saying how "awesome" they are and started comparing each album's supposed awesomeness. So I roll my eyes and figure I better go check out Ramones albums or something, just so I don't have to hear them.

Then I head over to that end of the section when I see some other mallpunk kid looking at Taking Back Sunday albums. He checks their selection of their albums and goes: "The new Taking Back Sunday album is... *pause* not here" and then lets out this sigh indicating how heartbroken he is to not find this album.

Good god, it's enough to make you wretch. :(

P.S. - It's also a pretty sad state of affairs when the likes of Iggy Pop get found in the "Pop/Rock" section at said store, yet somehow Good Charlotte is in the "Punk" section. Gimme a break.

[Rancid_Beasties]

Answer: Don't buy from HMV if it bothers you that much. Or write a formal complaint, if it doenst get a response at least it will get a few laughs.

Surely you have a better cd store near you.

We have JB Hi-Fi (y)

[mickill]

Wow. Your life must be an absolute living hell.

Seriously, I don't think I could give a rat's ass what another person chooses to buy at a music store, let alone feel an actual emotion over it.

[The Notorious LOL]

DroppinScience is just SO PASSIONATE about the music he reads about in Maxim Blender and on Pitchfork Media that he is sent into a FURIOUS RAGE if he assumes that Maxim Blender and Pitchfork Media may not approve of said band!!!!



Also, the Ramones fucking suck.

[DroppinScience]

Surely you have a better cd store near you.


Of course there are. But when you're on break during work, sometimes the options are limited...

[DroppinScience]

DroppinScience is just SO PASSIONATE about the music he reads about in Maxim Blender and on Pitchfork Media that he is sent into a FURIOUS RAGE if he assumes that Maxim Blender and Pitchfork Media may not approve of said band!!!!

TRUTH!!!!

[zorra_chiflada]

the answer is clear to me. there is no-one in the world who is cooler than you. you, brett lambert, have the best taste in music in the world. and no-one else could possibly reach your level of refined musical taste.

[Rancid_Beasties]

Of course there are. But when you're on break during work, sometimes the options are limited...
Just dont buy it during your break. Wait until you actually go cd/record shopping at a place you like with a decent selection and category system. Anyway I thought you had pretty much every cd ever invented anyway :p

[DroppinScience]

Just dont buy it during your break. Wait until you actually go cd/record shopping at a place you like with a decent selection and category system. Anyway I thought you had pretty much every cd ever invented anyway :p

Well, I am missing some Wham albums, I do confess.

Ummm... I meant Sonic Youth. Yeah.

[jabumbo]

the store i always go to just remodeled their entire store


i really like it, minus the fact that all the budget discs are so close to the floor that you practically have to lay down to see them. i pretty much live off of trying to find something worth listening too in the cheap section every time i go there, so their new setup makes it hard

[roosta]

when im in the mega-record-store i purposely talk loudly about shit music just to enrage the music snobs hovering about.

[avignon]

My older brothers used to make fun of me for liking Duran Duran when I was a kid. :( Assholes. (I love you, Simon!)

[avignon]

the store i always go to just remodeled their entire store


i really like it, minus the fact that all the budget discs are so close to the floor that you practically have to lay down to see them. i pretty much live off of trying to find something worth listening too in the cheap section every time i go there, so their new setup makes it hard
I have perfected the bottom shelf duck-walk cheap CD perusing technique.

[ms.peachy]

Oh you young whippersnappers and your HMVs. Back in my day, if we wanted to buy real punk rock records, we had to cut school and go all the way into New York City and make our way to Bleeker Bob's. Then we had to take the dirty clothes down to the crick and beat them on rocks. This is back when nickels had pictures of bees on them, of course. "Gimme five bees for a quarter," you'd say. Where was I? Oh yeah - so I had an onion on my belt...which was the style, at the time.

[roosta]

also, when I am in the video shop, when we see arty cinema types stroking their chins over wether to get Three Colours Red or Blue...me and my mates wax lyrical about which kick-boxing based movie we will rent.

We also then argue about which is better, Under Siege or Under Siege 2.

[Gareth]

KUMITE! KUMITE! KUMITE!
shit thread, but i felt compelled to add something.

[Freebasser]

If you're so passionate about buying 'true punk music', then why oh why are you shopping at HMV in the first place?

Corporate whore!

[Nuzzolese]

Oh you young whippersnappers and your HMVs. Back in my day, if we wanted to buy real punk rock records, we had to cut school and go all the way into New York City and make our way to Bleeker Bob's. Then we had to take the dirty clothes down to the crick and beat them on rocks. This is back when nickels had pictures of bees on them, of course. "Gimme five bees for a quarter," you'd say. Where was I? Oh yeah - so I had an onion on my belt...which was the style, at the time.

:D
Ramble on, you fossil!

[ASsman]

also, when I am in the video shop, when we see arty cinema types stroking their chins over wether to get Three Colours Red or Blue...me and my mates wax lyrical about which kick-boxing based movie we will rent.

We also then argue about which is better, Under Siege or Under Siege 2.
HAHAHA, holy fucking shit, this and your earlier post have got me on my side laughing.

[bigblu89]

Honestly, if I'm at the mega-music store at the mall like an HMV, I really can't be browsing in their punk section for too long or else I will just get really really angry.

Since the real punk bands sit alongside the fake punk bands, it's inevitable you'll find the teens gawking over the fake stuff.

So one day, I was checking out this section, looking at Husker Du albums and the like when all of a sudden two 15 yr old girls start looking at the Hawthorne Heights albums and are all gawking over them saying how "awesome" they are and started comparing each album's supposed awesomeness. So I roll my eyes and figure I better go check out Ramones albums or something, just so I don't have to hear them.

Then I head over to that end of the section when I see some other mallpunk kid looking at Taking Back Sunday albums. He checks their selection of their albums and goes: "The new Taking Back Sunday album is... *pause* not here" and then lets out this sigh indicating how heartbroken he is to not find this album.

Good god, it's enough to make you wretch. :(

P.S. - It's also a pretty sad state of affairs when the likes of Iggy Pop get found in the "Pop/Rock" section at said store, yet somehow Good Charlotte is in the "Punk" section. Gimme a break.

YEAH! Fuck those kids for liking a different "3 chords is all we know" band than you!

Fuck those fuckin fucks.

[sab0tage]

This is back when nickels had pictures of bees on them, of course. "Gimme five bees for a quarter," you'd say. Where was I? Oh yeah - so I had an onion on my belt...which was the style, at the time.

Quote: Grandpa Simpson(y)

[cosmo105]

DroppinScience is just SO PASSIONATE about the music he reads about in Maxim Blender and on Pitchfork Media that he is sent into a FURIOUS RAGE if he assumes that Maxim Blender and Pitchfork Media may not approve of said band!!!!



Also, the Ramones fucking suck.
;)



thank god there are still people with amazing, unpredictable taste in music like you, sir. thank. god. U2 4EVER!

[afronaut]

You know, you're a much bigger poseur than any of those kids. Thats all they know. You, however, you're "informed" about musical goings on. Abeit, from the likes of Rolling Stone and Spin most likely. You're a sad, sad, sad copy of a "real" "hipster" or "music" "snob""."

You eat up pictures of the Strokes and scene kids from your glossy magazine, and you go out and buy a suit jacket, or a sports coat, throw some pins on it, namedrop the new "it" band in nme and presto! you're super neato coolo brett the mod!!!!!

To use an analogy you might understand, you're the Killers to a real hipsters Gang of Four. No dude, you're not even the Rapture. You're not even Franz Ferdinand. You're not even a direct descendent of a real hipster douche. You're a copy of a fake trendy hipster douche who was influenced by the real hipster douche. I mean, the hipster douche is a douche, but at least he has some cred and you don't have to be totally embarassed while listening to him. You, however, you make shitty watered down ultra-douchey top 40 ready faggy suedo indie-by-way-of-mtv "dance punk" that is nothing but a poorly manufactured clone.

Knowing you though and your wide encompassing music taste (that is your music taste encompasses some good bands and a lot of shitty fucking garbage that your precious magazines are whoring out to the public at the moment) you probably like the Killers. So you know what. Here's another analogy. The Clash are awesome right? right? right. And the Sex Pistols are kinda cool, yeah? Well, you're Good Charlotte.

And I honestly mean that. With all my heart.


Anyway, congrats dude. You namedropped Husker Du and the Ramones. You're soooOOoOOOOoo000OO0oo0ooo0OOooOo0o cool. You obviously know your stuff when it comes to music, you "true punk".








I apologize for using the word "douche" so much. Douche is such a lame and overused insult, but for some reason I felt it appropriate.

[Lex Diamonds]

(lb)

[ericlee]

damn, I was in the punk section of HMV looking for some Rancid cd's!!!11Wo0t, and well anyway, there was this older nerdy guy looking at the Ramones cd's thinking he was all like, punk you know? Dude had his shirt tucked in and was wearing Tommy Hilfiger jeans. Yeah, he knows his punk for sure.

[SobaViolence]

give'em the boot...

[jackrock]

I'm just here cause there's nothing on t.v.

[afronaut]

You know, you're a much bigger poseur than any of those kids. Thats all they know. You, however, you're "informed" about musical goings on. Abeit, from the likes of Rolling Stone and Spin most likely. You're a sad, sad, sad copy of a "real" "hipster" or "music" "snob""."

You eat up pictures of the Strokes and scene kids from your glossy magazine, and you go out and buy a suit jacket, or a sports coat, throw some pins on it, namedrop the new "it" band in nme and presto! you're super neato coolo brett the mod!!!!!

To use an analogy you might understand, you're the Killers to a real hipsters Gang of Four. No dude, you're not even the Rapture. You're not even Franz Ferdinand. You're not even a direct descendent of a real hipster douche. You're a copy of a fake trendy hipster douche who was influenced by the real hipster douche. I mean, the hipster douche is a douche, but at least he has some cred and you don't have to be totally embarassed while listening to him. You, however, you make shitty watered down ultra-douchey top 40 ready faggy suedo* indie-by-way-of-mtv "dance punk" that is nothing but a poorly manufactured clone.

Knowing you though and your wide encompassing music taste (that is your music taste encompasses some good bands and a lot of shitty fucking garbage that your precious magazines are whoring out to the public at the moment) you probably like the Killers. So you know what. Here's another analogy. The Clash are awesome right? right? right. And the Sex Pistols are kinda cool, yeah? Well, you're Good Charlotte.

And I honestly mean that. With all my heart.


Anyway, congrats dude. You namedropped Husker Du and the Ramones. You're soooOOoOOOOoo000OO0oo0ooo0OOooOo0o cool. You obviously know your stuff when it comes to music, you "true punk".








I apologize for using the word "douche" so much. Douche is such a lame and overused insult, but for some reason I felt it appropriate.


*pseudo

[SobaViolence]

i wouldn't mind reading that one more time...without the spelling mistakes...

[hardnox71]

The only time I am in the punk section of any music store is if I have to cut through it to get to the Rap or R&B sections.

Just being honest.

[Kid Presentable]

HMV on Oxford Street was the Dog's Bollocks. (y)

[DroppinScience]

Dear "Hell of a Sandwich"

Can you please proof read and edit any and all content typed by Droppin' before he is allowed to post it.

Please and Thank You,
The entire BBMB

Uh-huh. My brother hasn't posted here since last summer, yet you know who he is.

Good to know you still remember stuff, RobMoney...

P.S. - I realize it's fun to take shots at me and I expected most of these attacks from miles away. But come on, at least discuss my observations. I know that's too much to ask for. Sorry.

[DroppinScience]

Oh yes, one more thing. I should probably just quote Jawbreaker:

"You're not punk and I'm telling everyone. Save your breath, I never was one."

To paraphrase: I'm definitely NOT a punk, but the kids with the emo haircuts certainly aren't ones either.

[zorra_chiflada]

you quoted me in your sig :(

[Sarky Devotchka]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=1LR2fRIt1lc

lol@ericlee.

meh, I stopped getting angry about "punk" entering the mainstream about 4 years ago. avril lavigne pretty much hammered the last nail in that coffin when her alt-country pop was labelled "punk". it's time to let go.

[DroppinScience]

you quoted me in your sig :(

I'm also trying to work in afronaut's quote into my sig, but it won't fit. I may have to choose. What do you say, zorra?

[cosmo105]

one letter, one number

U



2



seriously

[DroppinScience]

one letter, one number

U



2



seriously

And...?

[cosmo105]

aaaaand you have no place bashing other peoples' taste in "music" when you defend to end a band that's pumping out a product that's mediocre at best and has been doing so for oh A COUPLE DECADES NOW. we're all real impressed with your knowledge of PUNK ROOTS!! and just how laaaaame those little teeny boppers are but i bet you listened to some real shit when you were a teenager - oh wait - you still do - so you have no more room to be whining about it than anyone else does. yes, the state of music is sad today but what do you expect in a corporate record store anyway? go watch high fidelity naked and tell yourself in the mirror just how fuckin' indie you are because you think 15-year-old girls should be more concerned about musical integrity while you blast some Vines. whore.

[yeahwho]

If you would said, "I was lighting up a cigarette and drinking Pabst Blue Ribbon from a paper bag" this scenario would of rocked.

One time I was walking down the Ave and the local punk rockers were using their suspenders to projectile rocks into the people walking into Tower records.

It's all perspective I guess.

I think it's punk that you even posted about it. (y)

[DroppinScience]

aaaaand you have no place bashing other peoples' taste in "music" when you defend to end a band that's pumping out a product that's mediocre at best and has been doing so for oh A COUPLE DECADES NOW. we're all real impressed with your knowledge of PUNK ROOTS!! and just how laaaaame those little teeny boppers are but i bet you listened to some real shit when you were a teenager - oh wait - you still do - so you have no more room to be whining about it than anyone else does. yes, the state of music is sad today but what do you expect in a corporate record store anyway? go watch high fidelity naked and tell yourself in the mirror just how fuckin' indie you are because you think 15-year-old girls should be more concerned about musical integrity while you blast some Vines. whore.

That just doesn't fly.

You may very well hate U2 today (hell, you may have always hated them), but they at least have albums that hold up to this day.

Not the same case for Hawthorne Heights or Taking Back Sunday.

It's just two completely different plains of suckitude.

[zorra_chiflada]

i'm still trying to get over the fact that you have me in your sig.
i wasn't even being serious :(

[DroppinScience]

i'm still trying to get over the fact that you have me in your sig.
i wasn't even being serious :(

Don't worry. It's all over now.

[zorra_chiflada]

good. because i was totally trying to "OWN" you.

when OWNAGE goes wrong. :(

[DroppinScience]

good. because i was totally trying to "OWN" you.

when OWNAGE goes wrong. :(

Ummm... you did realize that I used your quote in my sig because I thought it was hilarious? NOT because I thought it was serious.

[DroppinScience]

If you would said, "I was lighting up a cigarette and drinking Pabst Blue Ribbon from a paper bag" this scenario would of rocked.

One time I was walking down the Ave and the local punk rockers were using their suspenders to projectile rocks into the people walking into Tower records.

It's all perspective I guess.

I think it's punk that you even posted about it. (y)

If nothing else, I am glad you enjoyed the story...

[yeahwho]

If nothing else, I am glad you enjoyed the story...
You do know all the real punk rockers are in the R&B section.

[DroppinScience]

You do know all the real punk rockers are in the R&B section.

I thought it was the "Easy Listening" section...

[hitmonlee]

That just doesn't fly.

You may very well hate U2 today (hell, you may have always hated them), but they at least have albums that hold up to this day.

Not the same case for Hawthorne Heights or Taking Back Sunday.

It's just two completely different plains of suckitude.

so change a couple of decades to one decade and her post is on the money

god i hate u2

[Kid Presentable]

one letter, one number

U



2



seriously
You like penguins, though.

[Rancid_Beasties]

i'm still trying to get over the fact that you have me in your sig.
i wasn't even being serious :(
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

I SO TOLD YOU HE WAS GONNA QUOTE YOU IN HIS SIGNATURE!

I SO DID!

YOU LOSE!

[Tzar]

lol this thread is a fuckin' laugh.

who cares what sections the cds are in? if you find the cd you're looking for, buy it and get the fuck out.

[voltanapricot]

HMV enrages me period because import prices of CDs rape my poor student bank account.

[roosta]

you mean, you people listen to things other than the beastie boys?
why?

[roosta]

and you people BUY cds?

[zorra_chiflada]

i bet droppin buys records. and badges. that he puts on his pinstriped jacket and black chucks.

[DandyFop]

Uh...I listened to total shit when I was a teenager also. *shrug*. I guess I still listen to a lot of shit now, but I don't really care. I think some 15 year old kids dressing/liking mainstream popdressedaspunk bands is pretty normal....it's their Spice Girls I guess.

[DandyFop]

That just doesn't fly.

You may very well hate U2 today (hell, you may have always hated them), but they at least have albums that hold up to this day.


Not that I listen to those other bands, but the fact that they were born about 20 years after U2 might have something to do with that.

[Randetica]

U2 = (y)

[afronaut]

P.S. - I realize it's fun to take shots at me and I expected most of these attacks from miles away. But come on, at least discuss my observations. I know that's too much to ask for. Sorry.
Your "observations" are nothing special, nothing new, and nothing that hasn't been said before a billion times. You are me at 15. Back when I first started listening to all "indie" and underground shit and was all excited that I was finally listening to "good" music, I made the same observations as you, and shared those observations with others in an attempt to fit in and seem like I knew what "real" music was. You know what though? Then I stopped being 15. That ended all my little transparent cocksmoker attempts to fit in. I realized this: who gives a shit? Do I give a shit if some kid listens to shit music? No! No I dont!!! The only reason to make such pointless "observations" is to prove something. I mean, come on. Newsflash: Kid with scenester emo hair listens to music I don't like. I mean, wow. None of us on this message board had any idea.

However, at least now I know that you like Husker Du and the Ramones! So now I think you're cool!

And I don't get it. Do you just go to sections in music to stand around artists that you read are cool so you can look all hip and then get mad at people who look at artists you read are not cool?


"To paraphrase: I'm definitely NOT a punk, but the kids with the emo haircuts certainly aren't ones either."

Right, I forgot. You're a "mod". If you're so not waving any punk flag you shouldn't give a shit whether some kid with an emo haircut is a "true punk" or not. Do kids with emo haircuts even try to pass themselves off as punks? Why are you so enraged by these people? If you didn't suck horribly, you wouldn't be. So the only reason I can think of why you'd be so enraged by misguided kids going through a phase is because you suck horribly.

[Lyman Zerga]

i remember norcen saying he likes an u2 song

[Lyman Zerga]

hahaha



im bobwashed

[hardnox71]

You do know all the real punk rockers are in the R&B section.
Yeah, actually, I've been meaning to ask you guys about that.......

[Documad]

aaaaand you have no place bashing other peoples' taste in "music" when you defend to end a band that's pumping out a product that's mediocre at best and has been doing so for oh A COUPLE DECADES NOW.
I used to love U2, the concert I saw on their last tour was great (my bestest friend WORSHIPS them), and I absolutely get to bash other peoples' tastes. So there. :p

[Knuckles]

The real reason Brett was "enraged" (http://www.beastieboys.com/bbs/showpost.php?p=1179217&postcount=16937)

[Freebasser]

Haha :D

[Lex Diamonds]

Classic thread. This was where the final scraps of dignity that Droppin had on here were cruelly sucked up by the Hoover of Shame.

[kaiser soze]

Looks like Droppin' and Insertnamehere shop at the same mall

;)

[Auton]

ahaha. yes. a classic.

[afronaut]

God, I pwned the fuck out of you Brett.

[DroppinScience]

Classic thread. This was where the final scraps of dignity that Droppin had on here were cruelly sucked up by the Hoover of Shame.

You have plenty of experience (http://www.beastieboys.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=76482&highlight=shot+wigger+London") in that department as well.

[Lex Diamonds]

OH U MAD CUZ I'M STYLIN ON YOU? :D


Mad enough to bring up an irrelevant inconsequential thread from ages ago, anyway.

[RobMoney$]

You gotta laugh at how serious some people take their music.

...and no, I'm not talking about Droppin'.

[QueenAdrock]

God, I pwned the fuck out of you Brett.

I know Brett the best and I can honestly say that a lot of people here have good points and stuff, but actually you were off in your assessment. I don't say that to defend him, hell, I love being a jerk to Brett. But honestly, he's not a poser...he genuinely does like Husker Du and all that other punk crap not because it's what's cool, but because it's what he likes. He likes stuff that isn't approved by music snobs or music magazines, and honestly I think is a bunch of crap too, but he still listens to it, regardless of what others may think.

My wittle Bwett is growing up. :p

[afronaut]

I know Brett the best and I can honestly say that a lot of people here have good points and stuff, but actually you were off in your assessment. I don't say that to defend him, hell, I love being a jerk to Brett. But honestly, he's not a poser...he genuinely does like Husker Du and all that other punk crap not because it's what's cool, but because it's what he likes. He likes stuff that isn't approved by music snobs or music magazines, and honestly I think is a bunch of crap too, but he still listens to it, regardless of what others may think.

My wittle Bwett is growing up. :p
I don't doubt he likes those artists. It's not about that. It's not even about his delusions of being like "that guy from High Fidelity." It's about me pissing on Brett. Because I love it so. And so does he. You wouldn't understand, it's really perverted.


and I pwned the fuck out of you, Brett. Come on. Acknowledge it. I may have been soft on you lately, but thats just because I think you suffered enough during this classic episode of me pwning your balls off.

[RobMoney$]

BECAUSE MY TASTE IN MUSIC IS SOO MUCH HIPPER THAN YOURS AND I KNOW WHAT IS COOL MUSIC AND YOU DO NOT.

[ericlee]

damn, I was in the punk section of HMV looking for some Rancid cd's!!!11Wo0t, and well anyway, there was this older nerdy guy looking at the Ramones cd's thinking he was all like, punk you know? Dude had his shirt tucked in and was wearing Tommy Hilfiger jeans. Yeah, he knows his punk for sure.

Yep, I think that was my post of the year for that year.(y)

[skra75]

P.S. - It's also a pretty sad state of affairs when the likes of Iggy Pop get found in the "Pop/Rock" section at said store, yet somehow Good Charlotte is in the "Punk" section. Gimme a break.

true.
I've officially given up on Punk music.
Even "good" punk music such as the Misfits and NY Dolls.
It's all pretty damn boring and no longer suits my carefree attitudes in life.
Also - I dislike record stores and the idea of digging through cds. (lb)
a) I'm spoiled by itunes b) I don't like spending my free time there I'd rather go snoot around for sneakers at crappy discount stores.

[roosta]

You have plenty of experience (http://www.beastieboys.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=76482&highlight=shot+wigger+London") in that department as well.

lol

[marsdaddy]

The real reason Brett was "enraged" (http://www.beastieboys.com/bbs/showpost.php?p=1179217&postcount=16937)Let's be honest, Knuckles owned it.

[TOY]

give'em the boot...

hay. I buy those sometimes. :(