Hat-tip to Fabio for pushing me to clarify my concerns a bit...
Why would a fifty-year old investment banker who listens to Barry Manilow and thinks The Crow is actually about the life of a Corvus brachyrhynchos give a rat's rear-end about Goth culture? Well, to be Jewish about the point, let me answer that question with a question: why does a wolf care about a sheep?
I would hope at this point, after seeing what both secular and church cultures have done to undermine, exploit, and destroy the underground that we wouldn't need a lesson on being "innocent as doves and crafty as serpents", but I think it's a lesson that bears repreating: many corrupt, dying and Babylonian mainstream ministries will put on their holy makeup and offer a deal in order to exploit you like a commodity or an equity. The mainstream church knows that the underground has a high threshold for returns, and they want a piece of that pie.
For the sake of the Kingdom, for the sake of the souls that God is entrusting you to shepherd – do not let them take it.
By all means, work with mainstream ministries, but the minute they start telling you how to run things, or start pulling strings with funding, or start moving the ministry away from its original vision, you need to take a stand and tell them where they can take their hostile takeover corporate tactics. There are many great men and women of God who want to open their doors up to us – but there are plenty of murderers and adulterers waiting for the foolish young man to come by so they can say "Today I have paid my vows, therefore I have come out to meet you, to seek your presence earnestly, and I have found you!" Trust me on this point, I've been there. When the whores who have decimated God's Kingdom come looking for the lifeblood pumping through our counter-cultural veins, run. And don't look back.