How can Punk be pinned downed so easily, punk ethics enters the world of BLatz, g.g allin ,FEAR, crass, conflict, The misfits ,the buzzcocks, TSOL, and blink 182. All these bands are different, some very moral and very political, while other bands have their own different views and tastes.
The sound can meet funk like in poison girls, ska, pop,or heavier metal, . Punk as a genre is so broad. Punks make what punk is, if punks wanna be capitalist, then there will be punk capitalists. I happen to love a lot of the punk sounds I have heard, which is what makes me punk I believe, not a specific ethic. I am a firm believer that just because your an angry, political, leather jacket wearer, that doesn't make you a punk. Its the enjoyment of the genre of music. Natzi punks are punks lovers who are natzis. Then, yes you can start talking about labels or history, but the punk I am attached to is the music that ended up under that classification. Being a punk is the feeling that punk music gives you, if you do not understand that, well go post something about something YOU do fucking love, because is feels fucking good to love something.
If punk people have pissed you off in the past, just remember people and sucking go hand in hand. Support punks, yo we the brokest genre, though. You would pay 160 for Metallica, but a punk festival its too much. What happens punks will lose the ability financially to do what they love, because some punks have to still live within the confines of this world, with bills and kids, and school, and projects and food. Ex. The AFro Punk festival, I heard that shit used to be punk as fuck, by the time I found about it Kanye west was headlining. Why the change, the owner called it growing up, though his answer urked me more than a bit, I understand. If people think punk muscicians we still be able to tour when people aren't willing to pay more than 1/15th of there gas money to see them, well.