A quick preface: Not all fraternity members stomp around campus like Revenge of the Nerds' Ogre, tossing dweebs from balconies and glugging beer out of football trophies. Some of them are just red-blooded American bros, searching for meaning and identity alongside comforting scores of their alpha male brethren, hopefully while holding a red solo cup. And they have their own soundtrack, their own canon of artists, to whom ripping bong hits, studying for econ class and playing casual-but-actually-super-intense games of ultimate frisbee sound just about perfect. 

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