Subculture and Tropes

I’ve also asked this on the Ask the Tropers page, and it was recommended I ask here as well. Is there a difference between the Goths Have It Hard trope, and people listening to the darker music because it legitimately helps them get through dark patches in their life?

I'm not sure that listening to darker music alone makes one a goth. Conversely, Goths Have It Hard describes a depiction in which being a goth implies a morbid outlook or a love of suffering, if I'm reading the page correctly.

If people listen to goth/emo/whatever music as a means to cope, then it's an example of Goths Have It Hard, which is about those subcultures being used as a shorthand to emphasize a character's depression and suffering. "Dark music" is a very broad term and not exclusively goth, though. I feel like there's enough trope for "listening to sad music to cope" but not sure if it exists.