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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
Kim grew up far more "affluent" than him.
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Most professional musicians do not come from the poor or working classes. It takes a bit of $$$ to buy instruments, lessons, etc.
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Not overly surprised on the first point
I guess what I might have been going for with my earlier thoughts is that there's the whole narrative about early-career Sonic Youth being impoverished young adults living in a shithole in the bowels of old-school New York, but part of that was a voluntary choice to throw yourself into where the art scene was, consequences and enjoyment to be damned. It's for the best that Thurston
et al were able to make the most of it and not have to return to the nest, but it feels almost dishonest to ignore that it was quite a convenient nest to start from.
There's a lot of musicians out there who come from uber-privileged backgrounds (which Thurston's wasn't, I'll admit - his parents don't have Wikipedia pages lmao) and try to sell themselves as an up-from-the-gutters newcomer, and it's probably worth critiquing that cultural niche. Of course, feel free to take this as a bitter middle-class suburbanite griping about what she hasn't had - that's probably what it is.