Hmmm... My
indie cred has almost doubled over the past 14 or so months; it was
24% last October, and now is 40-42% (depending on how you count).
The fact that I lived in a sharehouse of Top-40-listening normals for a while
probably pushed me on the path to indie-snobbery, and the black-rimmed glasses
and
writing RAN reviews did the rest.
I still don't own any Belle & Sebastian or regularly wear sweaters
(or jumpers, even), or hang out with stereotyped "indie kids" though.
(The indie fundamentalists sound every bit as annoying as goths, even if
superficially less daft.)