That is a rather arbitrary dating, besides, there was A LOT of great albums put out in the 1980s and 1990s you are completely scoffing for no other reason than it suits your imagination. Punk is not dead, and it has been exploited commercially since its very beginnings, but if you actually go to an actual punk show, you don't find Ciara or Chris Brown or any of that shit. You won't even find Kim Gordon's, ugh, fashion line. No, you'll find a bunch of pissed off, drunk, sweaty kids with patches celebrating the sheer nihilism of politics. Its actually quite fun and liberating to be part of such a community. Lets be frank, punx are probably the last honest people, they aren't blinded by wishful thinking or even fucking natural optimism, they are simply looking at the world of politics and culture with their eyes open enough to see how much bullshit it out there. If anything, gutter punks who drop out of society are the Sytlites and Ascetics of the post-modern world.
