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Misfits, a Love Story

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Published on November 15, 2007

I moved on to fecal punk GG Allin, thinking it humorous when he championed "brutality and bloodshed for all" and sang, "I'm infected with AIDS, I fuck every day, I kill everything I fuck." But then I saw Todd Phillips's documentary Hated, and Allin's seriousness with his message made me feel unclean.

There will always be a time for the Misfits in our country. All they did was take punk rock out of New York City and place it firmly in Middle America. They sang songs for uncool kids living in places where nothing ever happens. When you listened to the Misfits, you realized you could be pissed off anywhere for any reason, especially if you had nice parents, three hot meals a day and no reason what­soever to really despise your ­classmates.

They were the first band to make rebelling against a cushy adolescence both totally necessary and totally laughable.

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