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PUNK VOX - WHAT'S THE LAST THING YOUR PARENTS BOUGHT YOU?

What's more punk than getting shit from your mom and dad? No, not shit like "a hard time" (though that's punk too), we mean real shit, like presents. Things.

Sid Vicious's mother gave him the heroin he used to OD; Pete Shelley's father paid for him and his buds to make the Buzzcocks' Spiral Scratch EP; and practically everything Mike Nesmith owned came out of his mom's Liquid Paper fortune--from the hat he wore while recording "Steppin' Stone" to the toilet he pissed in during the production meetings for Repo Man. See what we're saying? That's not even getting into the thousands of crusties whose parents gave them less tangible punk stuff like rape trauma or the genetic predisposition toward alcoholism.

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Vice: What's the last thing your parent bought for you?
Ping Pong: I can't even remember man. I don't know, a dildo?

Emily: Well it wasn't a dildo. I think maybe they bought me a set of luggage.

Charles: I can't even really remember. I think my dad bought me a pickup truck when I was 17.

Brian Alien: A fuckin' drumset, man. My parents bought me a drumset for my crossover-grindcore band, The Alienz.

Judith: I also play crossover-grindcore but the last thing my folks bought for me was my cellphone.

Dan: Nothing. No. They don't buy me nothing. My mom made me a birthday cake once when I was 5. Does that count?

Supla: my mom bought this really tacky watch and I can't really use it or anything--it's like "Hey! Look at me! I've got a watch." But don't get me wrong, I love my mom.

INTERVIEWS BY AARON LEFKOVE