Part Time Punks

"Part Time Punks" is a song by the English post-punk group Television Personalities. It initially appeared on their 1978 EP Where's Bill Grundy Now?, and was released by Rough Trade Records as a single in 1980. The song was written by the band's lead singer Dan Treacy and satirises the latecomer, fashion-oriented, so-called "plastic" punks who emerged after the UK punk rock movement became mainstream.

The track first appeared as part of the 1978 four-song EP Where's Bill Grundy Now?, before it was released as a single. It sold about 27,000 copies in its first year and brought Television Personalities to prominence within the then-emerging UK independent music scene. Though it was one of the band's best-selling releases, Treacy came to regard the track as a millstone and somewhat of a novelty song.