Who Are We To Argue?

Yuppie Pricks - They are so fucking better than us

"What’s more infuriating: tales of woebegotten hard-working middle class people who get screwed over by big business and the government, or images of people flaunting their lavish, high-rolling, decadent lifestyle in perfect knowledge that most of us will never be able to afford it? What gets you riled up more: news pieces on human indignities, or the drunken antics of the latest starlet on TMZ?

Fact is, we’re more involved with the rich and powerful and their dealings and doings than we are with actual, tangible events happening to everyday, normal people. Tales of human suffering seem to get lost in the shuffle of Sean Penn selling his home and Mini-Me having sex. And that’s exactly where the Yuppie Pricks become more punk than punk.

If punk music was the ultimate tool of musical subversion, it’s hard to imagine being more inflammatory than a group of musicians clothed in pristine power suits with lit Cubans tucked between their teeth, powering through the most searing and ferocious guitar chords this side of a Black Flag concert, cufflinks glistening along in the light. With champagne towers and naked sushi girls accessorizing their exaltation of capitalism, the NRA, and the bombing of Arab countries, Yuppie Pricks may actually the perfect combination of tongue-in-cheek and in-your-face to forecefully slap us back down to earth for a much needed reality re-evaluation."