Chickenshit Conformist

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"Chickenshit Conformist" is a song by the Dead Kennedys on their Bedtime for Democracy album. It accuses punk rock of becoming "a closed-minded, self-centred social club", and accuses the punks of becoming "chickenshit conformist[s] like your parents."

It also mentions the phenomenon of people being "harder core than thou for a year or two, then it's time to find a real job," a topic Jello Biafra, much later, addressed on his spoken word albums, noting that the individuals who are the most hardcore tend to be the ones who end up becoming the most conservative and pro-establishment later in life.