My Punk Music Collection

Punk Music - not a fashion, not a fad - we've stood the test of time

Punk music - and I use the term 'music' deliberately - a defiant stand against basically whatever you want to make a defiant stand about. And that is the beauty of it. Punk music was never about (and how many times have I read this) dressing up in a certain way, or bringing down governments or changing the world. For me, and just about any other punk I've ever talked to, it's basically about enjoying yourself now, here and now . If that means getting pissed out of your head and jumping around to loud music then great. If that means dressing up to shock/offend/amuse/irritate then fine. If that means getting hold of some instruments and banging away to produce an unholy cacophony then go right ahead.And that's the point - it doesn't really matter. It's whatever takes your fancy. But it's gotta be loud and it's gotta be fucking exciting, or don't bother.

But remember - punk was never going to change the world. It may have succeeded in scaring a few people in the music industry, (so they went out and bought the bands), and provided an influence for some bands and some fashions, but you'd struggle to argue that it really changed much else. But that didn't stop a whole host of bands from pissing about making grand messages to accompany shit music. And how fucking dull is that ??? History has shown that it's the bands who produced real quality music who have really been remembered, and that the most memorable legacy of punk has been the classic songs.

Moving on, I must admit I find it all a bit ironic that the original DIY don't give a damn about tomorrow 'music revolution' is now just another collectable commodity like stamps or coins.How fucking depressed must all the bands like Crass be, with all their 'Pay No More Than £2.99' good intentions, that their albums are now changing hands for many times more than that ????

Anyway, I've put this site together just in case anyone else is interested in the fruits of one old punk's labours. When I bought my first LP, (Cockney Rejects Greatest Hits Volume One as it happens), I certainly had no idea about 'collections' and 'collectors', except that they were probably old men with beards, but here we are forty years later, and suddenly punk records are being chased all across the world by every man and his dog. Fucking crazy !!!!

On another note, I've copied most of my vinyl to MP3. Details of which ones are done are on the 'Singles' and 'Albums' pages. If you're interested in any of them drop me a line at mail@mypunkcollection.co.uk