Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore on All Those ‘Goo’ Memes: ‘Nothing Is Sacred’

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Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore on All Those ‘Goo’ Memes: ‘Nothing Is Sacred’

In a news photo circulated two weeks ago, Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un took turns driving a Russian-made limo in Pyongyang, North Korea. The sight of two dictators tooling around was unsettling — but also ripe for a particular type of mockery. Soon after the photo appeared, a meme began making the rounds with that shot and, above it, the lettering “Sonic Youth LP” — the latest addition to the never-ending tradition of saluting, honoring, or …