Sex Pistols Album Covers Featured on Virgin Money Credit Cards

Young flesh required.
Sex Pistols Album Covers Featured on Virgin Money Credit Cards

Young flesh required.

Words: FLOOD Staff

Credit Card photo by Virgin Money

June 09, 2015

Sex Pistols credit cards for Virgin Money

And they said punk was dead. Virgin Money, the banking arm of Richard Branson’s Virgin empire, announced three new credit card designs based on the artwork for Nevermind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols and the band’s “Anarchy in the U.K.” single.

It’s “time for consumers to put a little bit of rebellion in their pocket,” NME reports Branson as saying in a press release, presumably without a hint of irony. Because when we think of our international banking system, the refusal to play by the rules is definitely something we should celebrate.

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Whether either party remembers the promo poster for 1980’s Pistols mockumentary The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle is unknown.

This isn’t the first time that the Sex Pistols and Virgin have joined forces to fight the good fight for capitalism; the nascent Virgin Records label released Never Mind the Bollocks in 1977.