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Ian Mackaye a pedophile...I very much doubt so. Dischords lives on their 80's releases still all the Dischord records releases worth listening to were made when Ian was 20 max. He's not the king of punk, he made Straight Edge popular...by like...writing the song called Straight Edge when in Minor Threat back in the early 80's. I find it hard to believe that a guy who subscribe to the Straight Edge movement he created, which is, no alcohol, no drugs, no cigarettes, no sex until married....and tons of bands followed those words despite him not wanting to make a movement, he was by his words "only describing what he was".

Read the lyrics to Out Of Step (with the world)....

(I) Don't smoke Don't drink Don't fuck At least I can fucking think

I can't keep up, Can't keep up Can't keep up Out of step with the world


Yeah it's basic, but in the middle he goes on a spoken word little thing that he's not telling you what to do etc.

After that he started Embrace who only had one album and then he stopped playing hardcore punk.

Formed Fugazi was the first indie rock band and their integrity, he formed it with a guy coming from Rites of Spring, the first "emo" band by most accounts and they spread left, but real left, not identity politics left, that shit didn't exist in the 80's, 90's and I think Fugazi persisted into the 2000's a little bit, not certain. But that guy is integrity in human form is all I can say after meeting him about 10 times, later on catching him outside when chatting with people, I would joke to him that I wasn't there for his band, unless they decided to play Minor Threat songs. And he didn't act like an angry social justice warrior taking it the wrong way. The only time I've seen him do that, is when Slayer in the mid 90's, when punk became fashionable again, with the offspring etc., Slayer got angry and decided to make a real punk cover album which featured 3 Minor Threat songs. They covered "Guilty of Being White" which is...Ian was in high school and he was messed with constantly, his school was 90% black and well, it says things about "lynched somebody, but I don't know" "GUILTY! of a racist crime, GUILTY! I've only served...GUILTY!...19 years of my time....and then ends up with the chorus which is just "Guilty of being white!". Except Slayer as homage changed the last "white" as "right" and it was one of the first internet feuds I witnessed, he didn't get that they meant, Ian, you were right when you wrote this. As DC was 50-50 black/white in total in the early 80's, and some neighbourhoods like his was mostly black people giving him shit, especially since he was a skinhead (non-nazi skinhead, the real kind, the proud to be working class thing that black people came up with first in fact).

I'm actually offended a bit here. As a musician who played in dank bars but at least managed to put 2 EP's on vinyl and a mini album on CD from 2000 to 2008, that band was part of me growing up, not my #1 band by any means (Minor Threat) but, it was the first band on Dischords...which back then was just the address of a P.O Box for fan mail and catalogues later on when he got other bands in, such as S.O.A which had Henry Rollins on vocals, he went on to replace the first Black Flag singer when he moved to California.

I'll check your clues and stuff, but I doubt it like I don't doubt the VA is the reason Raybeez, the singer of cult hardcore punk band Warzone from New York, who was in the Marines for 3 years before being honourably discharged and then he got into the whole New York hardcore thing...he died of PNEUMONIA because the VA was too slow at paying his doctor at the ER he was. Or how Kurt Cobain was killed for a pool of money and drugs that Courtney controlled her entourage with later on.