Punk Rock: You're Doing It Wrong

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“This early-90s ad for a CD compilation called Punk has all your favorite Punk tunes and more! It’s like stepping into CBGB’s in mid-1979 just in time to catch the Thompson Twins launch into a heroin-fueled rage and drop their instruments right in the middle of their generational punk anthem ‘Hold Me Now.'”

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And nothing says punk like puffed-out ’80s-era hair metal shag cuts.

Via Kathy Shaidle, who writes, “This is right up there with, if you were a teenager in 1965, and your mother knew you loved The Beatles, so she baked you a special birthday cake… shaped like a beetle.”

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