This is your friendly reminder that the government hates you. No amount of protesting, voting, or bribery will change the disdain that they have for you. They lie, they cheat, and they steal from the people they claim to help. They use schools to indoctrinate you into a useful pawn to the industrial complexes that profit those in power at the expense of those who are not. War is not justified. Taxation is theft. Take your life back from the bankers and aristocrats. The government is not your friend, has never been your friend, will never be your friend, and will do everything in their power to keep you under their thumb. Stop playing their games.
We’ve got a great Spud for you this month. The big story is about building a kickass sound system. In the Spud Photo Series, we take a look at all the most beautiful women in punk and metal to determine what the superior genre is. Spud Staffers Carl Hodges and Fags Dykerson both make an appearance, and we remember the life and times of the coolest nerd who ever lived. The music reviews include a throwback to What? by Figure 8 and the new single by A Residual Affinity.
If you want to support Spud and get your name on this lovely list, consider signing up on Patreon to get access to the stuff that didn’t fit into these pages. This month you’ll get some financial advice from our life coach George Atiakopolos, a review of Periphery II: This Time it’s Personal which is ten years old this month, and a bonus round of Smash or Pass.
“The convincing proof that the elephant really assents to being tormented by a troublesome and persistent flea on his eyelids is that he does not brush the flea off. If it be alleged that dissent would be of no avail, with his huge trunk chained to his legs, the question naturally suggests itself: How came he to allow a weak and mortal biped to chain him, when one gentle surge of his great body would have ground his master to jelly? Ah! The answer comes unbidden,– his ignorance and superstitious reverence for the office of his keeper makes him a slave.”
Benjamin Tucker, editor of Liberty, Boston Mass., 9/17/1881
SPUD UNDERGROUND IS BETTER IN PRINT.
Issue 3 isn’t available anymore, but you can get it as part of the Burlap Sack- the complete Volume 1 set.
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