The scarcity of the music not only makes the music itself enjoyable but it also gives the collector a strange sense of superiority.

Collecting records is, for many, beyond a hobby.

I was a very repressed young person. I wasn't good at school. I didn't fit in.

When Black Flag and DOA and all those bands were touring in the early 80s, it was kind of a forest and you just kind of got your way through it. Now it's like a six lane highway with Starbucks every twenty meters. That's just civilization.

If people are being upstanding citizens of the Republic, then you have to widen the net to incarcerate them. This explains why America's prisons are full of nonviolent offenders - a perfect example of American exceptionalism.

A gun in your hand makes a fool out of you. A gun in your hand makes a target out of me.

It is instilled in thousands of American males from an early age that one of their requirements is to be able to both dish out and take a lot of pain. They are taught the rules of this road in gyms, rings, backyards and fields all over America.