Blog: Listening Post - Wired Blogs

The conventional wisdom is that punk is rebellion, a middle finger to the Establishment and propriety. But that's a pipe dream that just will not die, especially now that auction house Christie's is set to hawk memorabilia from the Sex Pistols, The Clash, Ramones, Patti Smith and other shining lights of the movement's early phase on November 24 in New York. "We understand that tastes change, tastes mature," Christie's Simeon Lipman told the Associated Press . "Ten years ago, punk memorabilia probably wouldn't be something we'd be auctioning here. But now, people of a certain age [...]