wow that was a self gratifying post. i know what punk is, and what stereotype am i trying to keep up? the one where i said that andrew jackson jihad is punk? the one where i said that patti smith is punk?
as i said before, indie is more punk than punk is these days (although that is changing with bull**** indie artists like MGMT) there is no stereotype except for maybe having a ****ing spine and not buying into the awful commercialism that music today is so entrenched in. and i know, much has always been commercialistic, but that is why punk came about. punk was founded on an ideal therefore it has to be idealistic and have convictions to be punk. if it is not, if it is just three chord bull for the sake of three chord bull and that is pop ( and don't even get me started on pop punk, popular punk is such a ****ing hypocrisy).
i just want the music to be real. the artists that i originally was arguing against have not made real music, maybe they started out with a few decent cds but then they became whores, and that means that is all they were in the first place.
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