Friday, September 30, 2011  Steve Albini talks Hipsters,
Mephiskapheles  Steve Albini, the guy who produced In Utero
(which I bought the week it was released back in 1993 and still
think is one of rock & roll's greatest records), was recently
interviewed by The Gothamist. Albini threw some warranted jabs
at New Yorkers, setting their bloggers into a frenzy so intense
that they've all overlooked the gem that is the conclusion of
the interview:  "...What it boils down to is that I’ve
maintained a scrupulous cultural ignorance since about 1985 when
I realized that what’s going on out there in the regular world
means nothing to me...there was a period there, in the ‘90s,
when people who were my friends even, started trying to
rationalize an appreciation of mainstream pop music. Bullshit
like Madonna and that fuckin’ Cher single that was everywhere...
“Believe.” Right. Shit like that, people would pretend that it
somehow lessened me as a person that I had no connection with
this shit that I despised. Saying that