Top Five Ways to Detect a Music Snob

Published April 10, 2007

1. When you mention a semi-obscure band or rap group, the person asks you, “Oh, how did you hear about these guys?” This question not only demonstrates that the questioner knows the group well, but that you have no right knowing about them.
2. The person disdains all forms of popular music. They will exclaim they hate “anything I can tap my foot to” or “anything that can get stuck in my head.” They will grimace when they hear it.
3. The person disdains all forms of popular music. But they will dance to it “reluctantly” at parties because they think they are “being ironic” even though they have fun dancing to “Sexy Back.”
4. The person owns a lot of vinyl, claims the sound is “infinitely superior to digital shit,” and their collection is organized in an absurdly personal way. They hide the last fact by describing their collection as “in chronological order with an emphasis on genre.”
5. The person, once did, currently does, or will at some point, work at a store that sells any form of music.

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