There are not a lot of white guys in their 60s waving the flag for Lil Wayne's "Da Drought 3", especially not in the same column as they wave the flag for a Willie Nelson/Merle Haggard/Ray Price trio album, an anthology of new Chinese pop, Vampire Weekend, and Wussy ..." Christgau reflected in 2004: "Rock criticism was certainly more fun in the old days, no matter how cool the tyros opining for chump change in netzines like "PopMatters" and "Pitchfork" think it is now."