The rivalry is stupid, but I understand it since I want to beat the living shit out of every fucking hardcore kid who jumps in the pit at a metal show and starts playing Power Rangers, punching and kicking instead of moshing. I listen to hardcore, too, but there's a world of difference between the two and they're incompatible. Of course, the average person probably doesn't know there's a difference between hardcore and metal, so I'm just another one of "those people" to them. I also wish emo would stop invading the hardcore genre with the whiny bullshit.
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Originally Posted by roachboy
i dont understand why folk with different commodity-identities take those commodity-identities so seriously.
this is like fights breaking out between consumers of crest and consumers of toms of maine toothpastes.
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The difference is that the commodity identity becomes a lifestyle for scenesters. Emo is a way of life, even if it is a whiny, bitchy one that only lasts into the individual's mid-'20s at which point they grow out of it or develop a heroin addiction, at which point they start listening to doom metal.
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Originally Posted by mixedmedia
'Cause as far as I'm concerned you're all 'scene squatters.' Punk is dead and emo is just goth.
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The difference is between emo and goth is that goths hate everyone but themselves and emos just hate everyone.