The punk v metal talk on Street Fight lately is killing me and I’m putting a friendly hex on every city named Columbus
Like the whole “working class” defense of/argument for metal is ringing a bit fucked to me because I’ve been called a faggot by metal dudes and punk/hardcore people and it mean completely different things. Times have changed and so have both communities but I remember that shit.
Also the baseline careerism of metal vs “punk”, almost every metal band eventually sucks shit in order to make money. And there’s arguments for and against that, but when it comes to building a community versus building a ¢ommunity 🤷🏼‍♂️
Way more “working class metal bands” are getting bilked by pay-to-play promoters than any punk/hc band. I used to write it off as “if this disenfranchises them from playing music boohoo one less shitty deluded band” but they’re always chasing that dangling carrot
And don’t get me wrong, there’s a bunch wrong with punk. And I fucking hate it and resent the fuck out of it, but that’s mine to resent and hate the fuck out of, I don’t really need outside help.
And the whole punk v metal dichotomy is dumb as shit anyway since every punk I know listens to a bunch of fucking Judas Priest and shit and any metalhead I know jams GISM. Like something the Minutemen said, music is a river or some shit
So now I’m just gonna spam good-ass punk tunes
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