Too Fast to Live Too Young to Die: Punk and Post Punk Graphics 1976-1986

By the mid-’70s, music collector Andrew Krivine had gone off rock and roll. What had once embodied the revolutionary spirit of youth had become a bloated, pompous dinosaur raking profits for money-hungry music industry executives. Then, he found punk.

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“For me, punk heralded a new era in rock music,” he says. “It had brevity, aggression and sonic velocity that spoke to me emotionally. It became my music.”

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During the summer of 1977, Krivine travelled to London to visit his family.While there, he purchased the Clash’s debut LP, marking the start of what would become one of the world’s largest collections of punk ephemera.

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