Interesting idea http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2010/12/a_music_fans_ne.php

Crux of his issue with the word: “To many music fans, “indie” and “hipster” are more or less interchangeable—linguistic shortcuts that save us the trouble of making time-consuming cultural connections and distinctions between art, fashion, commerce, and so forth. “Indie” initially signaled a politicized separation from strictly commercial imperatives for music, but we’ve morphed it, as we will with these things, into a generic word designating more or less the core tenets of capitalism: incessant newness and endless repetition with slight differences, to keep things interesting and the system proliferating.”