Well, yeah… that’s my point. On top of that, Springsteen very much pushes a narrative of himself based on working class authenticity. In that sense, he was putting himself at odds with Dylan a bit, who went for the intellectual mysterious shape-shifting artist narrative.
True, which is one of the reasons why many punks often talked about this stuff in the first place.
They benefit from the mythology about being a musician, especially a rock musician - that even the successful ones are just pure artists, who don’t care about making a living.
