That is one of the reasons why the Garden State soundtrack was so popular. To the vast majority of people everything on that was palatable. lol I remember when I bought St. Germain's Boulevard there was a teenage Asian hipster girl ahead of me buying it and a 55 or so year old jazz fan looking black guy behind me with it and a 30 year old white guy in a suit in the middle. I just left a comment on another post about the Stompin' Tom song "Big Joe Muffaraw": "The first time I ever saw this Stompin Tom a few guys I worked in a warehouse with who were in a thrash metal band convinced me to go. Country was not my thing but there were punks, preps, old and old [I meant young] and everyone in between there and it was awesome. Saw him a bunch of more times."
The Garden Dtate soundtrack was essentially a Shins album. It's an amazing album, it was an amazing album well before Zach Braff screamed into the abyss. It annoyed me that all of a sudden everyone I knew was telling me about this new band. -I know, I know, I'm being the "I liked it before it wAs cool" guy.