Paid to fake it in a traveling band

Working undercover for the man.

From this article about an exhibition on East German punk, we find that punks there were enemies of the state, with all that entails for communist East Germany.

"By 1983 the secret police had sunk its talons into the movement and the scene was slowly but surely infiltrated with informants, forced under pressure from the State to choose between cooperation, a jail sentence, expulsion or military service."

via bloggy