It depends on if you consider yourself a music aficionado or just a music listener. I think a lot of the people who post here (and a lot of people in the indie scene in general) consider music such an integral part of their lives that they feel it necessary to know as much as they can about the history of their genre of choice, the artists that influenced current favorites, etc. And there's definitely a degree of elitism there - a desire always to be able to invoke the name of some group that fewer people have heard of.
And then there are the people who hear a song they like and listen to it because they like how it sounds. They might not even care who the guitar player is, let alone the band's influences. The funny thing is that when these two groups encounter one another, the former will do everything in its power to name drop suggest other, often more obscure artists in the same vein because they project their personal sense of value onto the latter. The casual listeners don't share or understand this sense of value, so they don't care. The elitists get angry at what they perceive to be ignorance, and the casual listeners still don't care.
Of course there are infinite graduations between these two points.
So basically you should just like the music you like - if that means you garner a more complete experience by knowing the history behind it, go for it. If you listen to a song because it's catchy, go for it. It doesn't make sense to tell people that one attitude is more correct when it comes to something as subjective as music.
