Doesn’t this quote apply to most punk art whether it’s music (The Sex Pistols) or comics (the Hernandez bros)?
It’s a cliche to picture indie musicians and fans as well-off “hipsters” busily gentrifying neighborhoods, but compared to previous post-punk generations, the particular kind of indie rock Frere-Jones complains about is more blatantly upper-middle class and liberal-arts-college-based, and less self-aware or politicized about it.
From The Trouble With Indie Rock by Carl Wilson.