The Separation of Church & Skate

i've been lucky enough to go to a few of the old school punk bands where the security guards just gave up and let us do what we wanted, tom gable from against me just told one of them to let us jump on the stage and shit if we wanted too same with the nofx, millencolin, rise against and pennywise show i was at. i'm in australia btw. thee song is great but, personally i don't mind a song here and there about girls and love but some many of these so called "punk bands" have made their careers on saying nothing but shit we have heard for years, plus the fact that what that mentality in culture is doing to iimpressionable minds is crazy, 13 year olds think that behaviour like that or songs about love are normal, all they become obsessed with is love and buying outfits to look like gc, i liked gc and blink and sum 41 back in the day before i was exposed to the real good stuff like nofx and bad religion and descendents etc but after a while it just wears thin, it doesnt make you think, it doesnt help society progress. the music industry may have launched sex pistols but the public not only liked them they liked the message, hence all through the 80's the indy labels took up because punk bands didnt want to be signed major and major labels only wanted them to make money of them, if the music industry infiltrates punk and turns it main stream like it has it would have been fine but the message and meaning changed, the lables couldn't shut punk down so they got involved and moulded it into something new and unrecognisable, its sad, but kepp up the good fight, there is plenty of good meaningful bands out there who are punk and not punk its just much much harder to find them, war on errorism changed me from a pop punk wanabie who felt i had to fit in into a guy who sees the world for what it is, full of fuckwits