the underground and subculture+erich is god rant

what is the underground? i'm not saying this to sound smart i'm actually asking a question. what the fuck does underground mean? does it just mean not known or what. what makes a band an underground band? i really don't know. but i know all this time i thought i was underground and different. am i? good question. well as we all know punk and metal have actually been embraced by the mainstream. ok punk was always kind of mainstream but now hardcore? what the fuck would the borring masses find in hardcore punk that they would like?! maybe erich from the now famous good bad music was right. maybe subculture doesn't exist any more. so where does that leave me? the problem with this is it's really hard to be taken seriously by the old punks. i can totaly understand that. i'm young and i wasn't around in the 80s. but now it's hard to take other young people seriously. i try too but it's so hard. yes i've found a few good people but most of the minor threat listenin black flag shirt warin fuckheads turn out to just be following another trend. let's face it. black flag or the misfits popularity grew so much after they broke up. same goes for gg allin. how i would love to have the days where you could walk down the street with a misfits shirt on and noone would know who that band was. then there are the bands like urban waste or fear of god who noone knows or will ever know. i love those bands. you know who garden weasel is? no? good. but what i'm trying to say is punk has been excepted. it's mainstream. where's a building and how can i get on top of it. it gets that depressing to see creative bands selling their soal for fame. same goes for grindcore. i thought grindcore would never be mainstream. i was wrong. no matter what you creat you will always find it has been dumbed down and sold back as just another fucking fad. it's sickinning. nothing i can do really. i can't take on the industry all by myself. depressing. oh well there are still some new hardcore bands that aren't bad. sloppy as hell but not bad. oh well nothing to do but keep on living i guess.