Look At me I'm so alternative.

Look at me
I'm so alternative
there's no fucks
for me to give.
I reject mainstream society
but not the ideas
it sells to me.
I might wear different clothes
live a different lifestyle
but try to talk to me
about revolutionary politics
and I'll run a bloody mile!
LOOK! I didn't say
that I was THAT
Alternative
it's just the music
that I like
I have no problem
drinkin' coffee at Starbucks
Got no problem with Nike
Please
ask me about all the bands I hate
just dear god, don't ask me to question
law itself or think beyond the state.
I've got a burning love
for fashion
I'll kid myself I live my own way
but really
consumerism
is my
burning passion.
Being alternative to me
is in the way you look
I don't care about politics
I'll do my thinking by the book!
And don't call me a poseur
because I dress like a punk
Even though now it's been recuperated
the message hollow out,
The rebellious spirit evaporated.
Punk's now become an image
and a brand
 what's sold now isn't punk
it's just an excuse to wear a band t-shirt,
 fuck and get drunk.
Instead I'll lie to myself
and pretend that punk's not dead
my inspiration is Johnny Rotten
and not The Conquest of Bread.



""“The concept of punk as spectacle or just fashion rebellion is something that was probably never accurate, and if it was, it is hella outdated. Being raunchy or pushing boundaries has been for some time now completely accepted by consumer capitalism and the pop industry. Spectacle sells. Capitalist scum have at this point completely stopped caring about morals or promoting WASP values, and only care about making money and distracting people from reality. See the Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord for more on this concept.

Shock isn’t punk. Punk has always been about more than shock. The politics of punk are shocking because they undermine mainstream values, not because our clothes are covered in safety pins. Punk is shocking because we want to overthrow the patriarchy and smash the government and free all the prisoners and stop racism. Drugs and excess aren’t punk either. Those have always been privileges of the rich.

Dan Ozzi (author of the Vice article) writes like a person with a lot of privilege. He thinks not giving a fuck is punk. How original. Sounds like every other white male with unexamined privilege. He can get in line with the manarchists. Punk isn’t for him. And we don’t need people like him to try to define a genre for us. Not giving a fuck about racism or sexism or transphobia or classism is about as fucking normal as you can get.

Capitalism is about what sells. And capitalism is rapidly appropriating aspects of punk that it can turn into consumer products. Those products have never been punk. True punk rebellion includes fighting capitalism, fighting oppression, and promoting a DIY ethic and solidarity and community. Punk isn’t about rebellion for rebellions sake. That’s what capitalists would like for us to think. There are specific values to punk. Punk is queers and people of color and womyn and everyone who refuses to assimilate or perpetuate oppression. Listen to some Crass, Bikini Kill, Dead Kennedys, Bad Brains, etc. Check out Punks Unite Across Turtle Island – www.nativepunxunite.tumblr.com . Check out radical punk zines like Shotgun Seamstress www.shotgunseamstress.wordpress.com . …Punk isn’t dead and the capitalists won’t ever be able to market the parts that really matter.”"
-PUNK ISN’T SPECTACLE. SPECTACLE IS CAPITALIST SHIT. http://profanexistence.com/2013/10/02/punk-isnt-spectacle-spectacle-is-capitalist-shit/"