Who Cares About Punk Posters?

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As Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin were winding down the 1970's a new musical movement was evolving in London. They started to call themselves punks and they were listening to bands like The Clash and the Sex Pistols. They were on the fringe of what was acceptable when they first came out and they were so far out on the fringe that the Sex Pistols had to start off their careers by playing in strip clubs opening for strippers. That would probably give anyone a really bad attitude. But they forged ahead with their loud badly played music and their complete lack of regard for anything other than what they thought was cool.

For many of the youths that could no longer feel a part of what they considered to be the over the top corporate music of bands like Pink Floyd these punk bands seem to have a message that they could all listen to and feel like they were a part of and no matter how selfish the entire punk movement seemed to be on the outside, on the inside it was quickly becoming a gathering place for the youth that felt they had no where else to go.

Punk band posters were unheard of at first as punk music posters were considered tools of corporate music and they wanted nothing to do with that. You could not buy a punk band poster in the early days and they were even hesitant to create a punk concert poster to help promote their shows. But soon you could get a Sex Pistols poster and some of the hardcore punks saw this as the beginning of the end for punk. When Joy Division posters started to become the norm in music stores that signaled a big change in punk that they did not want to make.

Then punk crossed the ocean and sparked a whole new scene in the United States but the United States punk bands wanted commercial success and while pioneer punk bands like the Ramones searched all their careers for huge commercial success later punk bands like Green Day found that commercial success and were forced to leave their punk heritage behind to pursue that success.

Green Day posters are still very popular to this day and you can order a Green Day poster online or pick one up at your local music store. In what seems like the cruelest irony Ramones posters are also very popular now and you can purchase a Ramones poster just about anywhere you buy your other posters. Joey Ramone, lead singer and band leader of the Ramones, passed away over a year ago and he had complained loudly in his last years that punk deserved more commercial exposure in the early days and the Ramones deserved the same level of success that Green Day found. Maybe Joey was right but when your whole musical movement is based on turning your back on society it becomes difficult to become widely accepted as well.