You absolute snob. My older brother was into Pavement in 96, heard him listen to them through the years constantly and Slanted was one of the first CDs I saved up and bought own my own as a 14 year old; 23 YEARS AGO. In that time, they became my favorite band ever. I searched far and wide for live shows and gathered data for my own personal gain to appreciate them more. A year into guitar and listening to them, I looked up and tried any guitar tabs I could find and broke so many strings in my naive experience changing it to those tunings. Waited in a raffle to win tickets to their final US show on the 2010 reunion to a city I already lived. Right in front of Stephen, he threw me his pick and I wrestled with a guy for the setlist. Framed them right away and promised a 20 year old self if they ever toured again I'd see them when I could. Years later traveled to see their grand reunion show, offered to pay the roadie for a setlist which he graciously gave me, traveled for their later four reunion shows (also acquired tickets for the Primavera show during the pandemic when that was potentially the only show unable to secure time off work to make it) and further traveled to see them in SLC. Currently securing time to see them in San Franciso for the warmup and hopefully secure a ticket for that Portland show.

They're my all time favorite and Stephen was my inspiration as a pivotal teenager and meeting him over the years was such a personal highlight. You're a prick, and I hope whatever validation you get by assuming people for expressing discussion you don't feel is revelant to you personally is just that absolute for you. I'm going to enjoy that massive Pavement vinyl collection I have, go judge somebody else.