# Are "entertainment snobs" who discount anything mainstream, truly snobs?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 3, 2006, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-entertainment-snobs-who-discount-anything-mainstream-truly-snobs/363058 "2006-07-03T15:48:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2006, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-entertainment-snobs-who-discount-anything-mainstream-truly-snobs/363058/21 "2006-07-03T21:20:26Z")

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It all comes down to the human tendency to divide people into “like me” and “not like me”. Shared artistic tastes are a quick & dirty way to estimate how much you have in common with someone, and there are a lot of people out there who look down on those who are not like them.

Are they really snobs? I don’t see why not.

> [@OneCentStamp](#):
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> You may be the only other person on these boards that I can ask this of, and even you may not be able to respond: do you have the new Celtic Frost album, and what do you think of it?

I haven’t bothered picking it up because I’ve just never been wild about Celtic Frost, but so far I have yet to see a neutral opinion. Everyone seems to either love it or hate it.

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**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2006, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-entertainment-snobs-who-discount-anything-mainstream-truly-snobs/363058/22 "2006-07-03T21:25:21Z")

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> [@ultrafilter](#):
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> I haven’t bothered picking it up because I’ve just never been wild about Celtic Frost, but so far I have yet to see a neutral opinion. Everyone seems to either love it or hate it.

I fall firmly into the “love it” category; however, unlike you, I _am_ wild about CF.

Even if you aren’t crazy about the Frost you’ve heard, it’s worth a listen. It’s very different from any of their 1984-1992 stuff. It’s all mid-tempo, incredibly dark and gloomy, with just a hint of the industiral tendencies Fischer picked up in Apollyon Sun. It sounds like the Sisters of Mercy with _really_ heavy guitar.

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