I don’t think that it is that simple. It seems like in order to consider class in punk music (esp. parts of it with a focus on poverty-aesthetics) that  you  have to take into account not just the type of class identity that people present visually, but also the type of resources that they are able to draw on when that lifestyle becomes no longer appealing.

This obviously is not the case for everyone involved in these sorts of scenes (though it certainly is for a portion), but can you really be considered lumpenproletariat (or poor, or etc) when your poverty is a choice?

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