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Punk goes legit
Punk: An Aesthetic costs features punk photographs, posters, album covers, and ephemera, centered on - but not limited to - Punk's golden era of 1976-77.
Quite who it's meant to appeal to is open to question; those people who survived the era and are now sufficiently wealthy to afford 55 dollars for the book might enjoy the occasional nostalgic wallow, but anyone still hanging on to their punk principles more than 25 years later might shudder at the glossy presentation and be tempted to shoplift a copy before hurling it back through the bookshop window...
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Sex Pistols were an English punk band that formed in London in 1975. They were responsible for initiating the punk movement in the United Kingdom and inspiring many later punk and alternative rock musicians. Although their initial career lasted just two-and-a-half years and produced only four singles and one studio album, Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols, they are regarded as one...
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