X-Ray-Spex: Germ Free Adolescents
Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 18 November 1978
SMASH THE barriers and the truth shall make you free (as long as stocks last, anyway): barriers between humans and objects, between the natural (sic) and the Art-i-ficial (sicker).
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