Runaway American Dream: Listening To Bruce Springsteen (2005) by Jimmy GutermanSample quote: “The rock ‘n’ roll era ended some time between the release of Neil Young and Crazy Horse’s Ragged Glory and the death of Kurt Cobain, roughly around the same time ‘hot topic’ changed from something exciting to talk about to the name of a retail chain in shopping malls that specialized in goth and metal fashion. When someone in purple hair, covered with tattoos and sporting a safety -pin-pierced cheek smiles at you in a Hot Topic store and asks, ‘How may I help you, sir?”, the co-option of rock ‘n’ roll culture by commercial culture is pretty much complete.”
