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Do you have an older uncle or — God forbid –  a parent who every time a new Paramore song comes out of your computer, steps in and says, “You don’t know what punk rock is.  I was there at the beginning, and I could tell you….”?

Now, instead of zoning out and cursing under your breath, simply open a new tab and go to the Operation Phoenix Records online archive of original punk zines.

Zines, in case you don’t know, were what kids did to commemorate their musical passions before there was such a thing as an Internet.  A zine was generally the product of one or a few obsessed scenesters who typed up, laid out and photo-copied their extremely independent publications on a budget of about eighteen dollars.

Ancient issues of Flipside, Suburban Voice, Maximumrocknroll and Heartattack have been painstakingly scanned and uploaded page by page into the Operation Phoenix archive.

Set your elder relative down in front of the computer screen, and go out to that Cute Is What We Aim For show knowing the old thing will still be sitting in the same place when you return.

However, if you come back home and the old punk you call your own is all crotchety because there is no Slash magazine or Sniffing Glue on the Operation Phoenix page, then you’ve got a real problem child on your hands. 

Good luck with that.

Thanks to MetaFilter for tipping Buzznet to the archive.