Read this book, thanks to _slasher_
Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain
The true story of punk rock in the stories of its participants
Translation by Anton Skobin, Max Dolgov
Judging by the book, those people were crazy and desperate. They didn't really think about much , devoured drugs for breakfast, lunch and dinner, fucked just about anyone, wore women's clothes, cut themselves with knives and died.
To each their own, of course. But there was no real meaning in what was happening, and they weren't looking for it either, unlike their English followers and researchers, who droned on about the social nature of punk.