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And so does pretty much any cheap macro beer. My cheap beer of choice is Old Style, but if the bar doesn’t have it, PBR, or, even better, Schlitz will do. I’ll take any of those over Bud or Miller because, well, frankly, they taste better and they’re usually the same price.
When the quasi-local Wiedemann went under the last time, PBR became my go-to yellow beer because it’s cheap and reasonably tasty, and the smell doesn’t remind me of a men’s room at a baseball stadium.
Anyway, when I think “hipster,” I think of a very specific subset of urban alternakids from 5-10 years ago. Think of all the 20-somethings running around in American Apparel sweatsuits who started a crappy Casio-Rap band after hearing Peaches for the first time. PBR was a thing, but they inherited it from their punk and hardcore elders.
The guys you see running around now in $400 selvedge jeans with the Hitler Youth haircuts are mostly just garden variety yuppies. Which explains the sometimes-shitty attitude.
I grew up drinking Old Style cause it was all we really knew, all my parents drank and all we could get. Still enjoy one now and then.
I, too, live in hipster heavy Logan Square in Chicago. I lived in Wicker Park for the six years before I moved to Logan.
At this point, I’d say describing someone as a hipster is more a description of fashion sense than behavior. The biggest difference between Wrigleyville at 1am and Wicker Park at 1am is the skinniness of people’s jeans.
Yeah, that’s more-or-less what it feels like to me these days, too. A lot of the complaints about “hipsters” to me seem more my experience with 90s-era or Generation X hipsterism: the irony, the obscurism, etc. I don’t observe these attitudes as much with Generation Y “hipsters.” To me, it seems to be a more inclusive sort of hipsterism: they may like obscure bands and the such, but they also embrace acts like Kanye, Usher, Katie Perry, Nicki Minaj, etc. I mean, just look at the end-of-year lists for hipster music website everybody loves to hate, Pitchfork, and you’ll see pop acts championed every bit as much as niche noise rock or French electro shoegaze, or whatever non-mainstream music the hip kids are listening to these days. I have a difficult time imagining music lovers in the early-to-mid-90s being both able to agree upon, I don’t know, My Bloody Valentine and Boys II Men or something like that. I see a lot more of those hipster-type attitudes in Cafe Society threads on this board, and I think it mostly comes from the Generation X and older crowd. At least that is my impression and observation.
Poseurs were people who tried to be cool in other groups, but weren’t, IIRC. At least in the late 80s/early 90s, pre-grunge, New Wave/Goth/“college/alt rock” scene.
And all of this reminds me of the SNL skits “Goth Talk”. (“Yeah, you were real Goth when you modeled pyjamas for Pic N’Save.”)
My main experience with the term was in heavy metal circles, where there were “real” heavy metal bands like Slayer and Megadeth and the “poser” metal bands like Winger and Motley Crue and whatnot (mostly hair metal bands.)
Drinking in bars is way to popular. I only drink alone, since I’m the only one doing it wherever I happen to be doing it. It’s, like, the ultimate hipster drinking style.