Genres are fun to play with too. If something has breakdown and maybe some screams? Put 'core' at the end. Its all up to interpretation and it gives us some easy short hand to discuss music.

I don't think theres anything wrong with labelling genres, its good for describing things. If I say "I love post hardcore, does anyone have more of that?" its a lot easier than going "hear me I out, I like punk sounds but maybe not necessarily punk songs?" What about movies? Can books have a genre? seems like a silly thing to take issue with. Alternative is a huge umbrella and it means something very different now than it did in the 90's when it meant pavement or sonic youth.

'naval gazing for music intelligentsia' did a pitchfork writer run over your mom?

The classic line more or less sums it up: "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture."

were defending bushs katrina response now?

No, but I’m pretty sure a Civil War history teacher’s opinion isn’t the source you want.

a very strange group of people to play chicken with as well, considering how important their job is

ATC has played this game of chicken before and lost. I'm sure they are well aware they need to tread carefully.

I doubt history will repeat on that.

I have a bridge in downtown NYC, interested in buying?

I remember that, people were convinced that twitter had a load of woke lib employees or something

its also not going to happen. They arent going to shave off 30 cents because thats just not how it works, they'll make 30 cents more an item. Realistically, they'll charge even more and make even more on top of that.

are they already in charge of keeping AWS alive?

phew howdy, you must be crate digging. Thats a lot of samples! Im impressed