“PUNK: Chaos to Couture” opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art this Thursday

book cover - chaos to coutureThe Metropolitan Museum of Art‘s new book, PUNK: Chaos to Couture, is an LP-sized tome, so I suppose it makes sense I’m listening to The Roxy London WC2, an LP that compiles many of the early punk bands performing live in their native environment.

The LP’s a deluxe reissue on Earmark, with 180-gram vinyl, a PVC protective sleeve, and all manner of accoutrements. It’s dressing up something that was most likely originally kicked around, beaten up, scratched, and treated poorly in all manner of extras befitting proper art, rather than something tossed together to entertain and shock — much in the same way that the fashion presented here uses high-end fabric to recreate or hearken to something once made in a rush before heading out for the night.
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