Just like any group of people; some are awesome and some are idiots. In my experience the comparison between some underground/independent art and what is broadcast on television and radio and vastly different. Mainstream content has a tendency to produce the most uncreative material for the sole purpose of making money, while others who make things for the sake of its enjoyment, or through an inspired feeling, tend to produce a higher quality art.

I'm sure this will be regarded as a typical 'hipster' rant, but the truth is that today intelligence seems to be frowned upon among popular culture, and people who deviate from the norm usually do so because they find positive things about what everyone else habitually ignores.