Jul 10 4:05 pm Sony Music to Close Punk Merch Warehouse That Just Voted to Unionize Justin Caffier

With perennial themes about fighting the Man, challenging orthodoxy, and offering a release valve for general pent-up dissatisfaction, punk rock has always been a genre by and for the working class. But when the proto-punk sound crossed the Atlantic in the mid-1970s and collided with the socioeconomic turmoil roiling in the United Kingdom, that ethos took on a more aggressive proletarian bent.