The Desperate Bicycles and Disseminating DIY Culture
The folks behind SST Records and Dischord could easily be figured as the first proponents of DIY ethics being applied to underground music in the United States. Of course, each nation has its own history of such things. And in the United Kingdom instead of Greg Ginn and Ian MacKaye, the people behind Rough Trade records and a band called Desperate Bicycles were responsible for the concept of self made, produced and distributed music.
