typically a young teen guy that listens to music such as cloud rap and vaporwave. They also enjoy wearing black and white clothes with sad faces or Japanese lettering. some even wear bucket hats and enjoy drinking Arizona iced tea. they are generally depressed and long for a girl to fix that,however they somewhat enjoy the fact that they are sad.
a phrase in reference to the film "High Fidelity". Used to describe slow, morose songs, or songs with unabashed tenderness in the lyrics or vocal style.
Jack Black as Barry, "put on some old sad bastard music, see if i care" this was in reference to Belle and Sebastian. other examples of sad bastard music include Low, Roy Orbison, Neil Young, Elliot Smith, Tim Hardin, Smog, wilco, bonnie prince billy, etc.