Hot Topic's "You laugh because I'm different, I laugh because you're all the same" shirt sold in every mall across America in the late 90s has always been my favorite.
> One may dye their hair green and wear their grandma's coat all they want. Capital has the ability to subsume all critiques into itself. Even those who would critique capital end up reinforcing it instead...
My take: When punk originated in the UK it was hostile and highly political. By the time it got to NYC it was still hostile but pretty much lost the political part. And by the time it got to L.A. it got sucked into the TV/media machine as a fashion show object of derision. R.I.P.