User blog comment:With Teeth/What Are Your Favourite Bands?/@comment-24177009-20131202162438/@comment-24077689-20131202174750

A) I wasn't judging, you cock. I listened to most of those bands at one time or another (and still do for some of them)

B)  I don't even like Starbucks.

C) Look who's talking with your scene kid tastes.

D) None of the bands I listed are even vaguely "hipster".

Just because someone is enthusiastic about music doesn't make them a hipster. Big surprise, just because you like Panic! At the Disco doesn't make you a fucking scene kid. And, perhaps "banal" wasn't the right word, perhaps predictable is more appropriate. It'd be like me saying my favorite books are 1984, Atlas Shrugged and something like Old Man and the Sea. Three of the most popular books of all time, my taste in books could be described as banal or predictable.

TL;DR: no tastes are bad tastes, but there's a whole world out there available to you and based on your tastes, those are some nice suggestions for other bands outside of the basic entry level stuff.

Also, you can like things outside of the norm without being a hipster. Big surprise, there are subcultures out there totally not related to that cancer.