The
sad thing about hearing numerous
punk and
pseudo-punk bands on the
radio (if you must) and
MTV (
if you can stomach it) is not that
all the preppie kids are listening to half-decent music and
calling it their own. I was never
down enough to be so
territorial.
What
does mystify me about the
new punks is their lack of interest in (or knowledge of)
DIY culture and
DIY things.
Nobody wants to create anymore (be it records, zines, or little plastic things);
nobody even wants to destroy. <
Righteous Babe is not the only, nor the best, independent record label under the sun.
Nor is
Epitaph.
You can
go to school and learn to make pretty, but
you don't have to.
DIY is so
American. You really can
make something from nothing if you check out all the good
dumpsters, and
you can make it beautiful.
P.S.
Wintersweet, the
Mormon Church was pretty fuckin'
DIY from the outset, some 150 years ago. The
Mormon subculture would not have survived so long as it has were it not for the
resourcefulness and
sense of community among its members.
Where's the irony?