Pitchfork's Chris Ott takes No Prisoners

I'm going to say he's bonkers and that's not a medical diagnosis and leave it at that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ci40ae8BlcE

How the fuck do you get benefits when you are on 94K?

its true ive seen em on the bbc

That prick must have watched it !

in the us 'benefits' means health insurance and stuff

Fuck 's sake Maura I was just about to report this tedious cunt to the fucking sooosh!

hahaha that would have been classic

wait what does it mean in the not-US

welfare, I think?

People don't boast about benefits in the current climate over here, it has a different meaning.

so it means being close to sea level? (current climate)

It means the atmospheric hatred that is allowed to exist and always has existed.

yeah, we have no real government assistance so "benefits" means health insurance, dental if you're lucky, retirement plan, and your own vlog

I've been sticking $30 in bennies up my ass for the past 11 years

$30 copay per visit and free vlog xp XD

whenever i hear bennies i always think of benzedrine because i am time traveler from the 1950s

not just an isolated tweet -- that is his standard response to criticism

This fucking bell-end is sat, swilling his brandy. Contemplating how many doughnuts follow him on twitter, how many fucking people on this thread are discussing him right now and he is a complete bell end with a stupid fucking punchable face, who talks lame student shite about an era of music that nobody gives a fuck about.

fooking students innit

I've been sticking $30 in bennies up my ass for the past 11 years
--Tip from Tae Kwon Do: (crüt)

dying

<i> does chris ott have aspergers syndrome? he's like that guy from the vines but he's got a real sad pompadour </i>

@SadPompadour isn't taken if anybody wants to create a Shallow Rewards parody account

man the courage it must've taken them to stand up to rolling stone, look fuckin wenner in the eye and say "YOU SHOULD PUT RADIOHEAD ON THE COVER OF YOUR MAGAZINE"

yup, they held the hopes of a generation. they were looking history in the eye.

go for credit in the spin world
look a wenner in the eye

Why does he take himself so seriously?

^this

hey i mean i'm just glad they did it...bands like radiohead have had to fight tooth and nail for respect from the rock crit establishment

96g, bennies, and 1000s of comments? just call him ot-win

It's kind of sad to see Ott flailing around in the dark like this, just looking for a target to hit without enough thought going into what he's saying. Still, I miss the days when an Ott or a True or a Wells would be given room at a major pub.

did that actually happen? i don't really have a good handle of where he's written, all i know is he was at PF before it was really a major pub

I initially read "pub" as a literal pub and was imagining bars with "RESERVED FOR MUSIC CRITICS" signs set up on certain tables, which would be kind of awesome/hilarious

Give it time.

critics shouting their opinions of new music releases, in a drunken stupor in a pub area "RESERVED FOR MUSIC CRITICS," is the only really true, pure music journalism. anyone who does it another way -- i hold you in contempt.

丂んﾑﾚﾚӨω ЯΣЩΛг๔ร ‏@shallowrewards 5h

Earn a living through socially-valuable effort, not helping point corporations at target market. /end @EthanM_Long

丂んﾑﾚﾚӨω ЯΣЩΛг๔ร ‏@shallowrewards 5h

.@EthanM_Long modifier: feed people to corporations all you want, work for one, just keep music the fuck out of it.

I thought this was a cute save. "one should work to help others...oh wait, i mean KEEP MUSIC PURE"

guess he forgot the limits of his piety for a sec

an Ott or a True or a Wells

barf that you'd compare this guy to those guys

2nded

haha was just going to post the same thing

Michael ‏@RcmndedListen 2h
@shallowrewards From the way you talk, it sounds like you're a well-off mid-30s-something unaffected by the last five years of the economy.

丂んﾑﾚﾚӨω ЯΣЩΛг๔ร ‏@shallowrewards 2h
@RcmndedListen maybe that's because I spent the prior 15 years working a trade and doing this in my spare time.

a socially-valuable trade

modifier: a trade that didn't exploit boston basement culture!

working a relatively recession-resistant trade

"start a white collar career sometime in the 90s" is great advice, everybody should be able to do that

artisanal IT

Now I have Michael Jackson's "Heal The World (Modifier: OK, Just Don't Be A Professional Music Writer)" stuck in my head

I was saying to someone the other day that many of the best people I've ever met are music critics and a handful of the worst. I've never met Ott but damn if he doesn't epitomise the most pompous, vindictive, toxic qualities.

tbf, he's really making the "be pure! never try to do it for a living, that's so impure!" argument to other music writers that indie musicians frequently make to ::shudder:: "career" musicians.

musician purity test, what did you score

xpost with the added hilarity of having to backpedal from a genuinely altruistic sentiment

of all the angles of his multivalent arrogance and naievete, the one that really gets me is the sense that he's the only person to have ever seen through a sponsorship message. the same young people who are chronically underemployed, indebted and broke are very unlikely to be wowed by some logos showing up in their scene somewhere.