Madball is cool. Check out a band from KC called Punchline. Cool guys and good music. I hate to say it, but is damned near a Madball rip off by his starting of thier CD saying "Lets show them how we do it Kansas style" VS Madballs Set it off's "New York style..." Anyhow, hardcore is cool.
I hate their fucking uber-elitist, iron-clad rules of some bullshit subculture psycho drama anyway. Fact is, only repressed metal fans who are too worried about not being "cool" listen to that watered down bilge anyway.
No one was. It was an idiot rumour from back in 86 that was started by newbie "hardcore" kids who were into metal but thought it was hipper to shave their heads and act like they'd been listening to Agnostic Front their whole lives. Even that sentence sounds retarded now.