Punk rock is about getting in a band and traveling around the country and meeting new people and building foundations and knowing that these new friends aren't after your money or your fame or your image. Punk rock is about people. And punk rock is about trying to get away from the bullshit of a music industry based on the maximization of profit at any cost. Our society is so fucking warped and twisted. We place more value on money and things and fame then we do on self-respect, friendship and pride in quality work.
Money has no value in the real world where life and death are determined.
The real world is that place where we have to interact with the rest of our species. The real world can be a lonely place. It can be the sort of place where no one cares if you live or die, and sometimes you no longer care. Money and fame and pretty things can't appease that loneliness. The real reasons are the same ones that most of our parents use when they take jobs they don't like or work longer hours then they want to, and the reasoning is just the same when we change our clothes to get better paying jobs and hold our tongue in fear of angering our boss and endangering our job.