The 00's

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Shaun White

[Mazderati]

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Great (best?) decade for indy rock
- Arcade Fire
- Radiohead
- Wilco
- The Strokes
- LCD Soundsystem
- TV on the Radio
- Sufjan Stevens
- The Shins
- Modest Mouse
- My Morning Jacket
- The New Pornographers
- Broken Social Scene
- Vampire Weekend

Queens of the Stone Age - yeah started in late 90's but.......

Hot take: Best Radiohead song is Paranoid Android tho

[riser4]

America lost it's collective mind and we got the GWOT. Endless war. Weapons of mass distraction.

[m2711c]

[Ted Striker]

it was a stupid decade.

[Mazderati]

No way you made it out of the 2000s without hearing this song. Still a banger.

[SumJongGuy]

I was looking at the Hipster item checklists people post for laughs and thinking.. So what, I still own several of the things on those lists like records and a turntable (two). Then it hit me. Hipsters are 20-30 years younger than me. If I had grown up with digital music and media I'd have zero interest in typewriters or cassette tapes. It's not "hipster" if it's the same stuff you used when it first came out. Pretending you're 25 years older than you actually are is a different thing.. Why would anybody do that LOL!!!

[AK47bp]

I was looking at the Hipster item checklists people post for laughs and thinking.. So what, I still own several of the things on those lists like records and a turntable (two). Then it hit me. Hipsters are 20-30 years younger than me. If I had grown up with digital music and media I'd have zero interest in typewriters or cassette tapes. It's not "hipster" if it's the same stuff you used when it first came out. Pretending you're 25 years older than you actually are is a different thing.. Why would anybody do that LOL!!!

Sounds like something a hipster would say.


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[SumJongGuy]

Sounds like something a OLDster would say.


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Fixied it for you...

[JimmyCarter]

Sounds like something a hipster would say.


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“I did it before it was cool, but now that everyone does it I wouldn’t!”

[SumJongGuy]

“I did it before it was cool, but now that everyone does it I wouldn’t!”

Oh no I'm still all in on obsolete shit.. You should check out my quiver..

[Ted Striker]

How many iPods do you have?

[dunfree]

How many iPods do you have?

He’s no Karl Lagerfeld
https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auct...ration-apple-2

he had over 300

[MarcusBrody]

The 00s were my coming of age decade (17-26) and it really was a mixed bag. I had lots of fun and really things turned out well for me, but in comparison to some earlier decades, I think people around my age had a less care-free go of it. The dotcom bubble burst right at the beginning of the decade, then Sept 11 and the subsequent wars, which affected a lot of people I knew. We were already feeling the resume arms race and so for most people I went to school with, extra time during college and the summers were about getting future applicable internships rather than goofing off at some throwaway job. Because college had become so expensive that making summer job money didn't really affect your debt anyway. Then we all graduated with debt, got our first jobs, and the financial crisis hit, though things were worse for my brother who is just a couple years younger than me as he and his very well-qualified friends had a ton of difficulty even finding jobs as they graduated into the worst of it. Pretty much all studies suggest that our generation will have less wealth than those around us because of bad timing of external crises.

But that being said, I had a blast. In 2000 I could finally drive and so could get out and socialize (I grew up living in the woods in an already rural town). Pop punk was fun and I thought the girls were cute. Later the aforementioned garage revival was to my taste (the White Stripes were my favorite and I don't think mentioned on the earlier list). File sharing was just becoming huge as were online communities. For someone like me who wanted to get to know a bigger world, that was amazing. I love having basically every song ever at my fingertips, but there was something about burnt CDs as the last gasp of mixtapes before Ipods reduced the need to curate for length.

While I mentioned that we all felt pressure to constantly be upgrading our resumes, if you were - like me - not actually that ambitious and rather curious, you could find really cool opportunities and excuses to do them. I taught English in Mexico for a summer. Worked a a sea turtle conservancy another summer patrolling the beach. Studied in Spain for a year taking advantage of cheaper European education prices before my university caught on (now they just have students pay them their normal tuition directly and pocket the difference).

I luckily got into grad school right before the wave of people who couldn't find a job due to the financial crisis flooded it and then had a blast doing my PhD. I learned to ski, met a bunch of people who post/posted here at a random little hill, and skied every weekend, crashing on floors and in my car.

One underrated part of the decade, especially at the end, was that good beer was becoming available pretty much everywhere. There wasn't quite the growth in numbers of brewers that there was in the 90s (or later in the 2010s), but to me it seemed like distribution was getting much wider for good beers and a lot of existing brewers were figuring things out.

[Not DJSapp]

The death of physical music and record shops began

[SumJongGuy]

How many iPods do you have?

3 Sony Walkman MP3 players. I don't own a single iApple iProduct. and get the fuck off my lawn..


Oh wait, I'm on your lawn. The 70s is my lawn, along with the dementia..

[Ted Striker]

I had a second gen walkman (cassette) in the 80s, but honestly didn't know they ever went beyond the CD models.

Just assumed you might have collected iPods because they were stylish like skateboards, chuck taylors, and the other stuff you collect. Karl Lagerfeld knew. And damn did he know how to make lingerie.

[SumJongGuy]

I had a second gen walkman (cassette) in the 80s, but honestly didn't know they ever went beyond the CD models.

Just assumed you might have collected iPods because they were stylish like skateboards, chuck taylors, and the other stuff you collect. Karl Lagerfeld knew. And damn did he know how to make lingerie.

My first MP3 player was like 128 (or 256?)mb. I think I could get 5-6 albums of songs on it. Then some dude at the part time work gig (Circuit City) showed me how much his iPod held, tens and tens of albums! Others soon had gigs of storage so I still stuck with MP3 format.

I was rolling with the Alpine head and 12CD changer in the Trooper LS all the way up til 2009.

[abraham]

2000s had the shift from big bulky portable CD players to weird mp3 players to ipods + mp3 players to just ipods. My first mp3 player had 64mb, maybe from an SD card. And then there were minidiscs that seemed like a weird thing my Japanese friends had. I still wanted one though. The first ipod I saw the was from a friend who told us in class that he dropped it off the stationary bike and it didn't even skip.

Also the iphone, that felt like a big change. I think the first one I saw was a friend from wrestling and a bunch of us gathered around to play with the touch screen and see what it could do.

[SumJongGuy]

A lot of people I worked with had Blackberries. I went from the Motorola flip phone to Android, and still with Android. Our designated house phone is an iPhone 6s though.. Kids have 11s. We used the house phone to keep tabs on them with find a friend. No longer have to ask them where they are going all the time.

Also, when they were in high school and fucking up we could take their good iPhone and give them the dreaded 6S to take to school when grounded.. Oh the humanity!!! That was more late 10s than 00s though..

[Mazderati]

Karl Lagerfeld knew.

Something else he knew.

"I was sitting on a pile of Louis Vuitton luggage, drinking water, with an apple and a cigarette in my hand, my cell phone, oh, and two guitars and out comes Karl. "He walks up, looks at me and says, 'Only a woman can look glamorous when smoking.' And I lowered my glasses and pointed to (the bags under my) eyes and said, 'With these'?"

[Ted Striker]

I resisted having a cell phone in the late 90s and only used them when they were provided by my employer. For most of the 00s I had a series of these:

[Ted Striker]

Something else he knew.

Possibly the last decade where talent was discovered rather than manufactured

[AK47bp]

Late 90’s early 00’s - birth of auto tune and music streaming was the beginning of the end.


It’s a loose hypothesis of mine…..


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