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True to the non-conformist ethos of punk (and, simultaneously, the marketing-savvy ethos of generating headlines), rabble-rousing icons the Sex Pistols have announced they will boycott next month's Twenty-First Annual Induction Ceremony at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. As announced last November, the Pistols were selected alongside Blondie, Miles Davis, Black Sabbath, and Lynyrd Skynyrd, to join the Hall's elite on March 13 at New York's Waldorf Astoria Hotel. Bollocks to that, says they!

On Friday, the Pistols posted the following hand-written, apostrophe-bereft, Thom-Yorkesque note on their official website. Clearly, Keats and Yeats are on their side:

"Next to the SEX-PISTOLS rock and roll and that hall of fame is a piss stain. Your museum. Urine in wine. Were not coming. Were not your monkey and so what? Fame at $25,000 if we paid for a table, or $15000 to squeak up in the gallery, goes to a non-profit organisation selling us a load of old famous. Congradulations. If you voted for us, hope you noted your reasons. Your anonymous as judges, but your still music industry people. Were not coming. Your not paying attention. Outside the shit-stem is a real SEX PISTOL"

Sic, man. Sic. That pen-and-ink gem, in all its cryptic, 300 dpi glory, is available for your downloading pleasure here. Expect a fledgling sludge-core act to be christened Urine in Wine within the hour.

According to the NME, seats for the induction ceremony cost $2500 a pop (hence, presumably, $25,000 for a table for ten), which is a pretty reasonable cause for protest if you ask us, considering the Pistols are among the acts being honored at the event. Non-profit or no, 'tis a mite insulting, oi? Perhaps Johnny Rotten and Steve Jones will expound on their decision when they get the "Jimmy Kimmel Live" interview treatment March 9. Because nothing says "punk" like Jimmy Kimmel.

All in all, not bad for the band who sought to embody anarchy.