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Not sure if trolling or trying to keep the gullible away from the punk scene. Maybe it's both.

That is not how frequent flyer miles work. That is not how ANY of this works

We haven't kept up with this story as it developed so here's a quick update: Last February, three members of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot entered Moscow's Christ the Saviour Cathedral and performed a "punk prayer" at the altar, blasting Vladimir Putin's re-election and accusing Russian church leaders of holding Putin more sacred than God. The performance lasted less than a minute and they left when authorities asked, causing no property damage to the church.

After a trial that earned them support from feminist activists and musicians internationally, including Madonna and Björk, the band members were charged with "hooliganism motivated by religious hatred" and sentenced to two years in prison. Their sentence might include time in a labor camp, where the threat of sexual abuse is pervasive.

Shortly after their sentencing, Pussy Riot released a new music video for their song "Putin Lights Up Fires, featuring footage from their cathedral performance and subsequent trial.

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People who take things too seriously are so much fun to play with.

Things that I never knew were punk but now know thanks to this ad:

-Huey Lewis and the News -THAT GLAM HAIR -Eurythmics -Californian surfer-dude idioms like "dude" and "man" -Karma Chameleon -My Sharona -THAT GLAM HAIR

Who would have thought the Spice Girls could actually sound good.

The next question must be about heavy metals.

Not that it isn't great to hear Dave Grohl's astute observations on fatherhood and the music industry's piracy crackdown, but it would be nice to hear more about the drug-fueled hedonistic rampage of a life that we all know he REALLY leads.

I can't tell if that's a condescending smirk or a pained grimace. Either way, this is totally how Green Day and Blink 182 will be remembered: not as the bands who turned punk into pop, but who were punk. Sorry, 1977!