The Edge: U2-Apple Deal Was ‘Really Punk Rock’

If you’ve ever been a punk or friends with a punk or maybe are still a punk (weird) you know that “What is or is not punk rock” consumes a parodic amount of the subculture’s time. Is Rancid actually punk? Are keyboards punk*? Hell, Johnny Rotten didn’t think Joe Strummer was punk. It’s a time-deleting argument.

But every once in a while we can all come together and with the strength of the Leviathan declare something really, truly, universally not punk. Read ye now The Edge’s comment on U2’s deal with Apple that is currently setting up the band’s new album to be the most deleted in iTunes history:

“[It was] actually incredibly subversive. It’s really punk rock, it’s really disruptive.”

Fittingly this comment was made in an article stored behind TIME Magazine’s anarcho-syndicalist paywall. We yanked the quote from Re/code.

Optional musical accompaniment to this post:

* An actual Punk Planet cover article, definitely not online.

[h/t Re/code]

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