Mike Dirnt Rages About Hipsters

Oh look what I found! That one guy from Green Day being a douche.

“‘If there’s a formula to selling out, I think every band in the world would be doing it’, he said. ‘The fact that you write good songs and you sell too many of them, if everybody in the world knew how to do that they’d do it. It’s not something we chose to do.

‘The fact was we got to a point that we were so big that tons of people were showing up at punk-rock clubs, and some clubs were even getting shut down because too many were showing up. We had to make a decision: either break up or remove ourselves from that element. And I’ll be damned if I was going to flip fucking burgers. I do what I do best. Selling out is compromising your musical intention and I don’t even know how to do that so fuck off you trust-fund hipster shitheads.’

Wow, you sound bitter Mike. Is it because I get my money by showing up to cash a check once a month, while you had to make embarrassing and ever-worsening albums to fleece the money from your teenybopper fans’ parents? Gee that sounds tough. I wonder, how hard did you try while writing “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” or “21 Guns,” those paragons of “musical intention?” I’m sure it was torturous. Why don’t you do the rest of the world a favor and listen to Refused, Bad Brains and the Minutemen before working on your next album so that it actually sounds like punk instead of three-chord cash grabs? And while you’re at it, quit complaining about a demographic that doesn’t even go to your shows, you whiny little bitch.

If you haven’t released a good album in over ten years, take your criticism square on the jaw. You aren’t entitled to a rebuttal, especially one as poor as this.