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So what i hate about the hardcore scene is this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udPIxvwMiYc&search=boston%20beatdown

I know that this is old fucking news, and the whole Boston Beatdown dvds have been out for a while, but it's sad that people release this shit and say that they aren't, 'out to make a quick buck.' Fuck that, that is exactly what you are doing. There is no room for this petty shit in the scene and it is high up on the list of reasons why I rarely go to shows anymore. I can understand why some fights happen, yes it is aggressive music, and it can add flame to a fire that was already started. However, take that shit away from the scene. Fight them somewhere else. Don't video tape the shit, put it on a DVD and incriminate the entire Hardcore scene because a few stupid fucks cant settle things reasonably.

At the Jesus Wept show a few weekends back two kids got in a fight over shit that was said in a school lunch line. Instead of taking it out there the one kid said, '..bring it to the mosh tonight.' Well, that is exactly what happened. They got into a fight outside of the hangout and luckily not too many people saw it, but more luckily no one of any authoritative status saw it. It was dumb and petty fight over someone name calling in a high school lunch line. Fucking gay.

Aggressive music doesn't mean that you have to beat the fuck out of each other. Do you automatically take to smack after watching spun or requiem for a dream? Most likely no. So that means that just because you are watching Terror, and god forbid someone hits you accidently while you're getting your bR00tAl MAWSH on, that doesn't mean that starting a fight becuase of it is necessary.

One more thing that pisses me off about this DVD is that they say they are doing it because corporate america is taking over and we are willed into this way of thinking because we are punk rock/hardcore fans. The exact quote is this, "boston mass. - for every middle class neighborhood created, the artist and poor are displaced. For every University expanded, a housing project is demolished. For every corporation built, every virgin records, every fucking starbucks an indepenent or family owned store is put out of business. When someone tells you what this city has gained, what they really mean, is what the city has gained at our expense. We are a group of artists, fuckups, punk rockers, skaters, hardcore kids fighting back. Boston Beatdown is the underground. We are your children raised on Ridilin and Prozac biting the hand that reared us, pissing down our heroes throats. Declaring war on everything. Declaring war on nothing. Music, art, violence, anti-porn, porn, whatever the fuck we want. We will not sit back and let corporate interests steal our culture. Given nothing, we are taking everything. Making this world a place of our own." And you can view this lovely clip here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBSQZT6OsHc&search=boston%20beatdown . So thankfully more than just hardcore kids they lumped in four other groups of people. Im sure that they are glad now they get looked at on an even worse angle too.

Disagree with me if you want to, but I honestly think that random violence has no place in Hardcore. It only brings us down.