How? Who paid for the ticket that put money in the pockets of these band members? You're helping them spread their propaganda by giving them your hard earned money.
http://www.anti-flag.com/anti-flag/index.html
This is an excerpt from one of the pages on their website.
We practiced our **** off during the remainder of February and part of March and within a few weeks we were scheduled to play a live radio show on WRCT in Pittsburgh. Unfortunately for us, we still didn't have a name! While Pat and I had already used the name Anti-Flag years earlier in our other band we had been kicking around the idea of using it again. Why? Well, it was like this… the name was originally inspired as a result of the late 80's Pittsburgh scene being infiltrated by a bunch of ******** who toted the slogan, "Freedom not fascism". Well, that would've been great if these jerks practiced what they preached, but unfortunately, their idea of punk rock was VERY fascist! They took to sporting the American flag on their jackets, saying the pledge of allegiance to the flag, and (like the bunch of goons they were) beating the ****** out of each other and anyone who got in the way.(basically they were just macho jock types who happened to have gotten into punk) At shows I would see these ******* sporting their flags singing along to the Sub Humans, Exploited, Circle Jerks, whoever happened to be on tour, and I would wonder why? Weren't these bands completely speaking out against everything these "punx" believed in? It seemed to me that these kids were really missing the point to it all. They needed to look "fascism" up in the dictionary so they could learn that fascism controls the masses by 1. Promoting extreme nationalism, and 2. Using systematic violence and terror.(To these kids credit they were against racism but they failed to realize that you can be anti racist and still be a fascist!)
Notice this statement...... their idea of punk rock was VERY fascist! They took to sporting the American flag on their jackets, saying the pledge of allegiance to the flag, and (like the bunch of goons they were)
Since when has fascism had anything to do with wearing a flag or pledging allegiance to one?
There's some anti war propaganda here ....http://www.anti-flag.com/anti-flag/index.html
After seeing the names of some of their albums I am further ticked off. I'm going to look for lyrics nowunless someone has already found some.