The music press just likes making sh*t up. So I guess it's wrong to accuse post punk of contradicting punk, it just contradicts the image people incorrectly apply to punk.
I know that punk has always had art snobbery attached to it. But the music press usually ignores this because it's easier to package punk as "anti snob and rock n roll" and prog as "snobs who were killing rock n roll". I'm more bitter at the press about that than punks actually.
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