In my youth the culture was that tattoos were a bit infra-dig. Like men (and women) sporting pierced ears.

On a scale of things that are important. They look as if they can play their instruments. That is all we can ask. If it is Folk for the modern idiom let the modern idiot listen.

But as Martin Carthy says (fawn, fawn) "You can do anything to folk, absolutely anything at all, and it will survive. Except when you ignore it." And who are we to contradict the deity?