Punk and Free Speech: From CBGB to the PMRC

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The episode traces how punk bands fought legal censorship—from Britain’s 1959 Obscene Publications Act and a TV interview that sparked nationwide backlash, through the Dead Kennedys’ ‘Frankenchrist’ obscenity trial, to America’s PMRC campaign—and shows what those battles did for DIY infrastructure, record distribution, and the broader punk movement.

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