Missing It

“I am starting to think that 90’s indie rock nostalgia is way more boring/offensive than the epicly chronicled, documentary-ized, coffee-table booked OLD HARDCORE DUDES “WE STARTED IT ALL” memory lane that is actually a dead end culural cul-de-sac.” -via

I’m not sure how many ‘old hardcore dudes’ really understand how much influence they had, so this sentiment has some oomph to it. I know what she means, and it can be truly annoying. That being said, DIY, punk rock and — yes — hardcore paved the way for so much more than music, and those folks do indeed deserve a lot of credit for first refusing neo-classical economic models of sustenance. Punk capitalism, you know? Ask the failing record industry, the flailing print industry, the radio world in a coma, the American lifestyle run ragged by debt and over-indulgence, etc. Ask them how much DIY culture has affected their lives. Or read The Pirate’s Dilemma.

Then make fun of Jesus Lizard.