Difficult lessons to learn when you are learning about punk #1

I work with this 19 year old girl who is way into punk. Like most neophyte punks, being 'punk' is more specifically about displaying the trappings of such, ie dressing in old plaid pants, dyeing your hair, and seeing basement shows. One knows they're speaking to a neophyte punk when they say something like 'My band is covering an Iggy Pop song... "I Wanna Be Your Dog" ', or 'Sonic Youth, aren't they a generic grunge band?'.

One of the most difficult lessons to learn when you are learning about punk, is that about as soon as punk began, the band Wire reinvented that specific wheel, sans the usual boring trappings:





Consequently, there are seldom earnest covers of Wire songs, due to the many difficult lessons to learn when you are learning about punk.