Spotted this over on Jeremiah's site. Evidently a British graphic artist named Adam McEwen has sought to make a statement about the "disappearing punk rock counterculture" as spearheaded by The Ramones and the rest of the CBGB alumni via some oh-so-clever "Sorry, We're Closed"-style shop signs. While I too lament the decline of the ideals of the movement/subculture/genre, I can't help but notice that McEwen and The New Museum are selling these artifacts for a whopping $250.00 a piece. That doesn't strike me as especially Punk Rock in the slightest. As my old schoolmate Andy (the first kid I knew to get into the Ramones way back when) said:
Print/Xerox/Distribute.
doesn't even look cool, anyway!
Posted by: GEF | November 06, 2009 at 09:54 PM
True, it's not especially clever to begin with.
Posted by: Alex in NYC | November 07, 2009 at 07:37 AM