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he year is 1975. The Vietnam War has just ended. A loaf of bread costs thirtythree cents. The world is changing, and you are, too. But here, moshing in the pit of a Sex Pistols concert, surrounded by people who are just as discontented with the world as you are, things
make sense. Like most countercultural movements, punk found its roots in feelings of unrest. By the time the term “punk” first entered the public lexicon, United States troops had been in Vietnam for a decade and a half. The popularization of mass media began to 2