Marten Reed isn't a real person, and I'm not even a music person!

[ragingemu]

How wrong is it that I looked up a group because they're a webcomic character's favorite band, and that I actually like what I've heard of their music so far?

Comments

[mah_zeh]

lol

[topsyturvytempo]

martin reed is a real person in my head. is the group mogwai? or sufjan stevens (who isn't a group)? or WHOOOOO? haha.

[ragingemu]

Mogwai - at least until my mom started watching frontline and I turned it off.

http://www.archive.org/audio/etreelisting-browse.php?cat=Mogwai

[topsyturvytempo]

already have a bunch of mogwai, thankees :) but wait.. that site.. is it just free downloading? goodness. i would look into myself but i have work to do (and it's less work to just ask you.. haha).

[ragingemu]

Yup. Free.

[violetshade]

Have you become indie?

[ragingemu]

No. In fact, one thing that has colored my reading of QC (and kept me from it before) is that I do not and have never related to the character's music obsessions (or tastes).

It's not that I've fallen in love with the band, just that I heard one of their songs, and liked it.

[violetshade]

Someday you too will learn the joys of albums that start with fourteen minutes of progressive noodling.

[ragingemu]

I'm all for a variety of different music, I'm just not about labeling myself where my musical tastes are concerned, never mind constructing my identity around them - that's what computers and politics are for doing.

Why, do you consider yourself indie?