Over the past decade, it has at times been possible to read PUP&#8217;s career as one long performance art piece about the imminent collapse of PUP. The prodigiously neurotic and violently catchy Toronto punk band named themselves after a phrase borrowed from singer-guitarist Stefan Babcock&#8217;s grandmother: &#8220;Pathetic Use of Potential.&#8221; If the troubles fueling their…

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