We started this in the spring of 95. I don’t know why we did it, or what the hell we were thinking. Bored, restless, or just stupid. Maybe all three, but really I think for me it was something else. Some people start bands because they want to have fun. I think I got into this because I hate mainstream music. Since I was a child I remember hating the radio. When the Experiment started punk rock had been mined out by the powers that be. Pop punk, and Sca (third, fifth, ninth, I don’t know what wave), were just a flick of the radio away.

Punk rock had left the dirty clubs and basements, and found it’s way to the mall. Yikes. I got into this as a big middle finger to how lame punk rock had become. Hack bands ripping off other bands trying to be the next big thing (and look Blink did it!). Originality, guts, and volume, had been replaced by a tidal wave of banality. Crybaby Emo bands, and sissy PC zines with bad writers and shity layouts, (hopefully Hit List will destroy them), made punk rock about as cutting edge as nerf.

Anyway I read this quote the other day and it really hit me. Not Iggy Pop or the Stooges but the idea he conveys if anything is why the Eight Bucks Experiment is