"ohhhh, punk has been made too widely palatable and for everyone. REAL punks are like presbyterian minister mr rogers!" there are still hardcore bands out there! you can go see them if you want! i bet this person would listen to the ramones and go "umm, he wants to sniff glue? are we glorifying drug addiction now? this is SO not punk!"
there are people in the notes going "yeah! this is so true!"
i think this is part of a broader trend of people feeling to need to justify everything they enjoy, it can't just be a show they remember fondly from when they were a kid, it needs to be punk
that's fair, don't mean to make it sound like a big mystical thing. just that it's very much not what mr rogers was about
It is magic and it's also pathetic drunk losers playing the worst music ever. It's punks. What I would looooove to see is the DIY networking example set be used for other things. I feel like tabletop games and other nerd stuff worked the same way pre-internet with independent zines with mailing lists in the back and stuff. Punk still works this way but there's also an email address. Having songs on band camp is about as digital as things go.