OFF! - ＂Borrow and Bomb＂ ⧸ ＂I Got News For You＂

What this video is

Released in July 2012 alongside OFF!'s self-titled Fat Possum LP, this double-video operates as both a hardcore punk document and a comedy artifact. It taps into a potent early-2010s nostalgia current for lo-fi, pre-internet media formats—public-access television, local talk shows, VHS-era aerobics programming—recontextualizing them as the ideal absurdist canvas for hardcore music. The clip belongs to a broader…

Why it matters

A key artifact of the 2010s hardcore punk revival video canon, demonstrating how legacy punk acts used comedic, concept-driven video production to reach younger audiences and online platforms. Its anthology/double-video format and serialized trilogy structure are rare formal experiments within the…

The director

Rob 'Whitey' McConnaughy is a Cannes Lion-winning, DGA-affiliated director whose career began with 16+ best-selling snowboard and skateboard films. He co-created and shot the MTV phenomenon Jackass and co-wrote/shot the first two Jackass feature films. He…