The Shaggs: Better Than the Beatles (and DNA, Too)
Lester Bangs, Village Voice, 28 January 1981
I HAVE BEEN getting whiny letters from a lot of you lately complaining about the general state of the art. "What is all this shit?" you ask. "We thought New Wave was supposed to be this awakening of New Avenues of Self Expression and Freedom, resulting in new musical verities and new insights into the human condition even! Instead we went out and spent all this money, and all these records are shit!"
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