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Nostalgic types, semioticians, and critics celebrate this as meaningful, unprecedented rebellion when, in fact, rock's bemoaned rebel advances American capitalism's preferred mode for all its drones: individualist (read: elitist), wild (consumerist) and enigmatic (macho). Indeed, as Bono of U2 announces his subversive (not) intent to "fuck with the mainstream" on the MTV music awards, and Ice-T describes the hoary details of his cop-killing fantasies (yawn), there is no concern in the business community, as there is no chance that these abstractions will affect the mega-conglomerates who rule our neo-colonies.
In contrast to these rough characters, however, there is one high-selling group
conspicuously ignored in the industry-written ad-rags (which masquerade as unbiased music
journals). Although capitalism can gleefully assimilate any and all fashion, sound, lyrics, et al, the one true threat, which it must destroy at all costs, is that which threatens its own insidious machinations. Particularly, the one group of its scope and popularity which consistently abstains from dealing with the Mafiosi music business: Fugazi.
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