I realize that not everyone was the exact right type of uncool to have read Pitchfork, and that a lot of you are just too young to have read Pitchfork and at best have only interacted with them via stan wars. I think its precient that inform you of Pitchfork's reputation pre their poptimism heel turn.
THEY WERE LAME
the only people that actually read the magizine were indie rock hipsters and the fools who thought they were cool. Pitchfork was Rate Your Music when being a music snob meant going to dingy record stores and visitng the music board on 4chan. The amount of respect a 17 year old should have been paying that website was 0, yet there I was