I am the Yr in "Kill Yr idols": How I Inspired Sonic Youth's Iconic Song

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Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore in an undated photo from the '80s. (Photo by © Gary Malerba/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images) Sometimes it occurs to me (often when I see the phrase on a  t-shirt, or used as a generational touchstone) that I am the “Yr” of the Sonic Youth song “Kill Yr Idols.