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[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

squidward-nochill The people who gave The Fragile a 2/10?

squidward-chill lmk when GQ absorbs Conde Nast's other property reddit-logo

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

270 Pitchfork employees were laid off

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

enshittification continues

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Pitchfork is good if youre a band pitchfork likes, but they have serious Ls and a legacy for hating things that turned out to be good and influential.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

a legacy for hating things that turned out to be good and influential.

don't worry they had no problem editing that legacy to reflect that they were always ahead of the culture

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

music is highly subjective of course. there's lots of things that are well-liked and influential that I think suck ass too

that said I never did like reading pitchfork reviews, they were often very pretentious and annoying IMO. but it could be a good place to find out about new music coming out even if you don't read the reviews

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

It's way past time to give up on all current cultural institutions and try to develop new local ones that are run as cheaply as possible. The culture industry is dying and there's nothing to say but good riddance

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

if pitchfork is what counts for culture we can go ahead and let capital have it as far as I'm concerned.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

Pitchfork was a website that promoted music artists. It helped me discover some artists that I hadn't heard. It was a decent website.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

GQ, the shitty men's magazine? This sucks

[–] thesmokingman 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I’m really fucking glad I checked the comments because I wasn’t aware anyone outside of the circlejerk that is Pitchfork and its advertisers actually cared about Pitchfork. “Esteemed alternative publication” seems like a huge stretch. My background is heavy shit and Midwest DIY so maybe it just never caught on in those scenes and there are scenes where Pitchfork was more than punchline.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Even musicians in the scenes pitchfork covered who benefited from the coverage hated it

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The funniest thing about people who like pretentious music is that they all hate their biggest supporters

Literally never seen a single Fantano viewer, Pitchfork reader, or RYM user not hate on their platform

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Fantano makes pitchfork look like Ebert

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The 20 Portland hipsters that care are absolutely devastated

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

I liked Pitchfork. It was a good website to discover new music. I've never been to Portland and I'm not a hipster. Thanks for bumping the post.