Buy Or Don’t Buy

The first question American Apparel invokes in most people is, ‘Who would buy something like this?’ For most of the items, the easy answer is ‘hipsters.’ However, there are a few that are pitched at a completely different niche market.

This gold jacket, for instance, is for Israeli entertainment moguls.

And this faux-leather jacket is aimed at [...]

There has been an onslaught of annoyingly awful music videos. I mean, hell, anyone can make a music video. But for some reason they just get worse and worse.
Like Ratatat’s Shempi:

It is just scary. The morphing faces? Non-synced singing? What? Why? In fact, this will probably give me nightmares. At least there for a few [...]

Our first rebuttal!
Mr. Duffy, I believe you’re missing the point. The reason it’s hard to specify to constitutes a hipster (and also the reason no one ever self-identifies as a hipster) is that, in its current incarnation, the term isn’t an objective signifier, it’s a relative one. A hipster is anyone who spends more time [...]

Seriously.  Is this shit not cliché by now?  Somehow we’ve all collectively come to the conclusion that it’s socially acceptable to hate on hipsters. There’s something so binary about lumping a group of people into ‘the other,’ and discounting them entirely in an attempt to feel part of something…well, better than them.
To pejoratively label something [...]