Postmark: Austin, Texas — The Demise of the Armadillo and the Rise of Garagelend Punk
Cynthia Rose, NME, 7 March 1981
IF YOU PAID to survive The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and saw it as anything other than a blackly anarchic polemic in favour of vegetarianism, then you were duped.
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