This isn't a debate in case you haven't worked it out. If you like indie your opinion is not valid hence I do not recognise you as human, therefore you cannot debate this topic, I have already won any 'debate'.
Indie is not a reference to independant labels, rather the monotonous, terrible attempts at music also known as hipster, you will know it and hate it when you hear it, if you don't do the world a favor and hang yourself.
Arcadesonfire - you officially forfeited your membership to the human club.
In designating indie as hipster and hipster as somehow inherently bad, without explaining either why they're connected or why either is necessarily bad, you're not really coming off as two clever, or even making much of a coherent argument. Hipster is a stupid term that was revived by an ad agency in the '90s to sell something or other. Lots of indie music is good. Lots is bad. Lots is mediocre. There's a hell of a lot of it out there.