flavorpill:

Dead Kennedys

And here’s something from a whole lot closer to home. Jello Biafra has always delighted in annoying the establishment, but lest we forget, he and his band ended up in court during the 1980s for the rather sinister-sounding charge of “distribution of harmful matter to minors” due to the use of HR Giger’s painting “Penis Landscape” on the sleeve of Frankenchrist. The band weren’t convicted, but were nevertheless nearly bankrupted — a depressing example of how even in the West, the law can be used to attack those who are guilty of nothing more than being establishment bugbears. (Libel/defamation law is particularly effective for such tactics.) Still, when history is written, who’s going to be remembered: Biafra or Tipper Gore?

10 Bands Who’ve Suffered for Their Politics

I’m getting lost in a mental nostalgia loop at the moment.

16th Aug 2012 (1:17 pm) - Reblogged from flavorpill

freeindie:

A young Jon Stewart moshing at a Dead Kennedys show.

[Via LS]

Ah the past!  There’s so much of you.  And I miss a lot of you.

27th Jan 2012 (5:12 pm) - Reblogged from FreeIndie

28th Dec 2011 (6:32 pm) - By inkyheels

What?  I love this song.  Oh David, posters of you decorated the walls of my adolescent bedroom.  And I’d do it all over again too. Sigh.

27th Oct 2011 (2:30 pm) - By inkyheels