Punk was never going to change the world, (well, not yet
anyway......). It may have succeeded in scaring a few people in
the music industry, (so they went out and bought the bands), and
provided a positive influence for hundreds of bands, but you'd
struggle to argue that it has really changed much else. But, to
borrow a well known phrase, so fucking what??? 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 !!!!
