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Robyn Hitchcock from the Soft Boys

Turned Out A Punk

CHAPTER

The Powers That Be Don't Waste Any Time Exploding the Hippies

Younger punk bands are still kind of feeding off this energy that you can just do it yourself. The technology of the tape recorder and the photocopier for zines allowed, you know, it was almost like there's that cocktail quote about how film won't be an art form until cameras are as cheap as pencils and paper. Yeah. And I think we're still feeling those reverberate. Well, they were always very good at disguising themselves as part of a radical new movement. It's one of the things they do, one of the intertrade marks.

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