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(Reblogged from markee)
In the two years since I graduated from college, I’ve had a pretty good time being “broke” in New York and drinking “cheap” beer with my friends. But sometimes I remind myself that the beer I’m drinking is not actually cheap, and that furthermore I am not actually broke: if I married someone who made the same salary I make, our household income would be slightly above the national median, which is also true of almost every person I spend my free time with. The truth is that I inherited expensive tastes and moved to an expensive city, and sometimes I get cranky about not being able to buy what I want.
Richard Beck. The whole N+1 article explaining that none of your musical tastes are your own, especially if you are a 20-something urbanite who “identifies” with the sentimentalist nostalgia of The Arcade fire, is worth a read. It articulates so many things about music and taste that I’ve only circled around in my head. (via markee)
