Why should I support Indie music?  A bumper sticker said to, but it didn't provide any supporting arguments. 

Now, if I know Indie-music folk (and I may be one of them on the inside), they should be appalled at this hypocrisy.  They are the anti-slogan folk.  They know it, I know it, and Indies hate canned phrases with no thought behind them.  In keeping with their spirit of minimally logical lyrics and repetition, the bumper sticker should perhaps have said:

            "Interference sunset blinding my ears /
            I always wanted to leave here in tears /
            The goal is attained /
            The goal is attained /
            The goal is attained.
Distorted atonal guitar and harmonica overlaid on lilting vocals with bizarre percussion

But that is a little long.  It might only fit on a Hummer bumper, and there is no way they would be seen driving that. 

Make no mistake, I just bought albums by the Decemberists and the Flaming Lips, and they are great to listen to.  I mean, I like and appreciate their music.  It's fun.  I just find the whole disaffectation image to be somewhat off-putting.  Music is for enjoying, and that goes for Goths, emos, punks, and classical dilettantes alike.