The week after “Smells Like Teen Spirit” got its first radio airplay, K hosted the International Pop Underground Convention (IPUC) in Olympia. The manifesto for the conference read in part, “As the corporate ogre expands its creeping influence on the minds of industrialized youth, the time has come for the International Rockers of the World to convene in celebration of our grand independence.—Because the corporate ogre has infected the creative community with the black plague of indentured servitude. Because we are grave diggers who have buried the grey spectre of the rock-star myth. We won’t
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