When you stopped thinking, that was the time when you should have stopped talking. Hint: it happened a long time ago.

Crimpshrine and Fifteen's early releases being out of print are a goddamn tragedy.

If you had wasted many hours of your life reading unfunny jokes about rich tennis players and supposedly deep incoherence, instead of just reading about the asshole who produced it, you'd be slightly less sorry. @avclub-2d0cca95ad6a2061d208d765e79af478:disqus is spot-on.

There couldn't be a more deserving corpse.

You're either an excellent troll or a tremendous douche. Either way, I recommend suicide.

My son is into the old D&D cartoons and as a result can actually describe the breath weapons of Tiamat's heads at age 4. You just totally rained on his parade by devaluing his hard-earned nerd skills.

What is this ridiculous inferiority complex coming from the classic rock "nerds" all of a sudden? You aren't a nerd if you're really into classic rock, you're just a hipster whose ship has sailed on to the next port. There are very few parallels between true nerd culture and rock "nerd" culture, with the exception of…

I also remember a lot of the less mainstream east bay pop punk bands, Fifteen/Crimpshrine, Blatz etc, being referred to as street punk, presumably because they weren't hard enough to be crust punk but were all homeless or squatters.

Skinheads were a confused bunch. They drew a lot of influences from good, non-racist music and sometimes even ethnic music unwittingly, and that worked its way into even the racist oi music. The fact that they were stupid racist kids doesn't automatically make the music bad. If you judged punk music at large by the…

I started going to punk shows in the early nineties and the term was already quite old. My guess is early eighties, generally applied to traditionalist punk bands which weren't part of the post-punk or hardcore movements.

I never thought I'd come across a Showcase Showdown reference here. Or anywhere. Southern New England punker age 30-40, I presume?

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