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Originally Posted by Genteel Death
Punk, in its DIY culture incarnation, is not something that the general public needs to get
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Now I think that is crux of the issue. True punk is a subculture, and an obscure one at that. It really isn't for even a small number of masses, rather, to stay in the gutters, alleys, and dive bars from whence it came and where it thrives. Let Chris Brown buy his jacket on e-bay, let Greenday somehow continue to sell millions of records even in the 21st century, let a bunch of kids by Ramones shirts at Walmart, its fine, it was no different than Billy Idol, and that didn't kill the punk scene, if anything it forced punx to dive further into the gutter to avoid the bandwagon. Kurt Cobain's biggest sadness was seeing the same lame jocks and racists that used to beat him up in high school listening to Smells Like Teen Spirit.. Its probably what killed him, and a point as to why punk should remain in the gutter because that it where it belongs. Nirvana was better in the gutter out of the spotlight, and that is why it was destroyed and replaced by Foo Fighters, the non-drug, non-gutter, non-punk alternative.